Ok brush of the dust. Does anyone remember if Rdesign allowed

pre-prompt subr's. I tried playing with paramenter 1 but that does

not seem to be part of pre-prompt logic.

I have a need to password an existing field before any modifications

can be made

TIA, Rich

R/design does not allow for a pre-prompt process but does allow for a pos-prompt process from which you can validate the password and discard or save changes as appropriate.

Is this 'prompt for a password' required on the record key or a data field? Is it prompted for each record or just upon entry to the screen?

Capt'n Kirk

If memory serves me, there are facilities for both null default and input conversion. You could put login in a symbolic null default field or a UDC (user-defined conversion).

I am getting responses, great. however there seems to be some

confusion as to what I desire.

There is a data field call TEAM (field 7)

1)New record or existing record and TEAM=null

 allow anyone to change TEAM without password prompt

2)Modify mode on existing record and TEAM has a value

 prompt for password and if correct allow mods to TEAM

 if incorrect take user back to mods line

This is pretty much what I understood you to mean. I see in reviewing my answer that I have a typo: the word "login" should read "logic". I can see how, especially since we are discussing passwords, that you may have thought I was referring to a login process. I was not. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I went with the post-prompt logic

I would have preferred Pre-prompt, but it is now working so I'll

live with what's available

Thanks

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