tracking changes

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JohnE

Hello.
I have a request from the engineers that they would like to see the changes
made in some fields similarly to what ms word does with the different colors
and lines thru what is changed. An example would be a description that would
go thru multiple revisions/changes before being submitted. It is difficult
to provide an example from Word, but if you went there and tried a short
sentence with Track Changes on you would see what I mean. This is what the
engineers are looking for. Would need to be done thru coding. The
description would be in a textbox.

Is something like this even possible to do?
If so, is there a sample/example of it someplace I can see it?
If possible, I am at a loss on how to code this. So any assistance is
appreciated.

Thank to anyone responding to this.

.... John
 
You should ask the engineers what they need (not want) not how they want to
do it. Access is different to Word and has completely different
capabilities. Yes, you can track changes but not in that way. Why do changes
need to be tracked and what needs to be tracked? If necessary you can keep
old values when values are changed by writing the old values to a 'history'
table. How you then redisplay the history is an open question. You really
need to find out what your users need.

-Dorian
 
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