My application has over a hundred elements.  I want to be able to track when someone makes a change to an element in the file.  I need to know which element was changed (from and to), who made the change, and when it was changed.

Is there a way to do this? 

I know i can track the changes to individual elements, but that would be impractical for every element.

Thanks!

I created an element called RecordHistory2 and used the following programming for ON FORM CHANGE for the new element:

RecordHistory2=@date +" " + @triggeringelement()+ " BY: " + @userID

This works in that it tells me who made the change, when the change was made and what element was changed, but it doesn't tell me what was in the element before the change. 

Is there any way to record the element info before the change?

I tried using your programming but I modified it slightly.  Since I don't know which element will be changed, I added a second variable and used @TriggeringElement to set the variable to the element name:

#include "sbasic_include.sbas"

var str as string
var str2 as string

str2=@triggeringelement()
str = @Attribute(str2, ATTR_ID_UNDO_VALUE)

However, though I get the element name assigned to Str2 correctly, the @Attribute statement doesn't work.

If I put the element name directly into the @Attribute statement (see below), it works as expected.  Does @Attribute work with variables for element names?  Any suggestions?

(str = @Attribute(gmold#,ATTR_ID_UNDO_VALUE)

Thanks for your help.  I used the following programming incorporating @field and it works great!



#include "sbasic_include.sbas"

var str as string
var str2 as string

str2=@triggeringelement()
str = @Attribute(@field(str2), ATTR_ID_UNDO_VALUE)

RecordHistory2=RecordHistory2+@Newline()+@date +" " + @triggeringelement()+ " BY: " + @userID + " WAS: "+ Str