I found out, that the placement of the submit button in a form (nested tables) has an influence on which model is saved first !
therefore, when the submit button is on the bottom of the page the associated model appears first in $this->data, which caused the save failure. this is truly bizarre. has anybody encountered a similar situation ?? regards, jyrgen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---