Hi, I am trying to implement a check in my pages so that if user A is editing record 1 from edit form A at the same time that user B is editing record 1 from edit form B, the user who submits it second will get an error that someone has just updated this record. I have a field in my table called "status_date", which is populated with the sysdate every time a record is updated. This is what I've attempted: In each form page itself, I've immediately queried the current status date for the record. When I display this on the page for testing purposes, it displays in the format 2000-08-25 10:22:39. I then assign this value to a variable called "last_status_date". Then I pass last_status_date as a hidden field to my action page (the page that does the updates. Immediately in my action form (before any updates are made, I have the following: <!--- immediately check status_date again to make sure no one else has updated it while the form was being filled out ---> <cfquery name="getstatus" datasource="CF_3IS" dbtype="ODBC"> SELECT STATUS_DATE FROM SUG_SUGGESTIONS WHERE SUGGESTION_ID=#URL.SUGGESTION_ID# </cfquery> <cfset datedifference = #getstatus.status_date#-#form.last_status_date#> <cfif ("datedifference") LTE 0> <cfabort showerror="Another user has just updated this suggestion. Please go back and refresh your browser to view the data inputted by this user, as it may affect your data entry."> </cfif> I have displayed the output of datedifference to see what is going on... On my action page, this is what I get for output: form last status date: 2000-08-25 status check from this page: 2000-08-25 10:40:59 difference: 0.445127314815 What is happening is that for some reason, the time portion of form.last_status_date is not passing with the hidden field, even though form.last_status_date fully displays on the form page as desired. Why would this be? Also, I believe that my reasoning is flawed for what I am trying to do, because of the actual dates. Should I be using different logic for determining if the record has been updated by user A just before user B submitted? Does this make sense? Thanks! T ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.