Everyone using our app is so tired of walking around and asking are you in so n so's record when they enter a locked record that they need to work on.

I thought a fast and dirty solution was to create an unbound element named WhoInRecord that when a record is entered on entry Sbasic uses my @ClientLocalValue("MyName") to place the users name into element so it would be seen by others in the greyed out locked record.

That did not work I am figuring because the unbound element not being tied to a field has no way of passing data along to the other users.

My next thought is to make WhoInRecord  bound to a field and on record entry fill it and on record exit clear it. Is this an ok way to achieve  my goal?

Is the entering and clearing of the element going to adversely affect the  system speed?

Is there a better way to accomplish this? Am I missing an Sbasic command that does this?

All thoughts and suggestions greatly appreciated.

Hi Bob,

You may also want to check out Inside Sesame, February 2009. There's an article by Alec Mulvey called "How to Know Who's Locking Records" that I believe you may also find useful.

Good luck,

Brandon

tcgeo,

Great tip!