thanks for your reply teddy. This does make perfect sense. The only reason i am a little opposed to opening the record is that i have been told that database interactions is what determines howmany concurrent users you can have on your server.Ther project i have at the moment has to be designed with the greatest optimisation as there will will be a large number of concurrent users on it. I am not sure if this is the case with concurrent users though. But this was my thinking behind checking to see which fields were red and only opening the database to save that data.
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