Yes, I was thinking about using a structure but I am unsure of the best way to do a comparison. Wouldn't this mean having to a field by field comarison or is there a better way? I was wondering if anybody had created a custom tag to do just this sort of thing.
>Should be easy enough and no doubt several way s to achieve this....both in >CF Code and in SQL. One way would be to load the records at page load into >a structure and then on submit comparing both the pre-edited and post edited >form struct to see what has changed etc... > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Andy Mcshane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 26 May 2006 10:25 >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Only update DB if data has changed? > >Hi all, does anybody have any ideas how I could best implement the >following; > >I have a page that loads anything up to about 30 individual records at a >time. Each record consists of 17 fields of data. All the records are >displayed on the page to give the user the option of editing any individual >field. When the user then submits the page I need to be able to work out >which records have had data changed and only do database updates for those >specific records. Having an individual submit for each record is not an >option, the whole page must be submitted as one but only records that have >changed should be updated. Can anybody suggest a method for doing this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241544 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
