So what then would be the purpose of a Diary field? The 'English' meaning of a diary is a record of a users actions in a chronological order.. If you just want a read only field to be updated with text only with no user and timestamps, you would need to emulate the functionality to update a read only field from a display only field, by appending its content everytime there is an update.. Joe
----- Original Message ---- From: nsachin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:16:28 AM Subject: Diary Field Validation Hello, Whenever a diary field is updated, the user name and timestamp gets updated in the Diary field.I don't want these to happen. Please help on this. Regards, Sachin _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"