Re: Is it possible to find out if a user is locking a particular record from a Forms 5 environment?

Dear Claire

        Use ON-LOCK trigger at the Form level or Block Level as to your convience
and use cursor with on update and lock the record. The ON-LOCK trigger is provided to Replace the Form buliders default Locking of records.Further details can be got from Help.

       Hope this helps you.
                                                              Regards Madhu
Shekar
                                                              Bangalore

Claire Moore <claire.moore_at_capgemini.co.uk> wrote in article <37AAB732.F0C_at_capgemini.co.uk>...
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to pre-emp 2 users trying to update the same record at once.
> (The users don't like the Forms 5 inbuilt message that appears when
> oracle cannot lock the record for update!!) and the only way that I can
> achieve this with minimum fuss is I think to check to see if a
> particular record is being locked by another user prior to allowing a
> user into that record.
>
> I know you can run a query to find out if a table is locked, but can you
> narrow it down to specific record(s).
>
> Alternatively, does anyone know how to trap the inbuilt error message
> that you get when editing a record that is locked by someone else - It
> has no error number. Or is there any other way to achieve my goal.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Claire
>
Received on Fri Aug 06 1999 - 08:32:36 CDT