I have a MS Access database that is accessed over the web via Coldfusion pages developed in Dreamweaver. A big portion of activities concerning the database records is the update of fields within the records to reflect activities performed. The activities are frequent and any record could be subject to updating multiple time each day by any one of 5 staff members. Obviously data integrity is of utmost priority, and I am looking for the means to ensure that if a record is open that another staff can not perform an update until the other party exits the open record.
With my intermediate skills, I was thinking of establishing a status check off box and that upon entering the lead the box would be checked and the record updated. In this was the underlying page page displaying available (hyperlinked) records could reflect the status of the record in accordance with a 0 or 1 being present in the "STATUS" field. But I was hoping for a more elegant solution.
Any advice that you can lend would be appreciated.