Editing Data in applications

Editing Data in applications

It would be great if an application could be open to all, but that people who enter data can actually amend that data. If you make an open application editable, then you can get vandalism and all your data erased etc. If however only the user that entered the data could edit it, then this would solve the problem. This could be simply achieved with a change in your software.

When data is entered, a record gets a unique identifier, this identifier plus a random number generated at the time the data is input, could be stored in a non visible field. That number is displayer to the user after data entry, and the user makes note of it. IF then open editing is enabled, the user can reinput that number and the relevant record he or she created can then be edited.

This can be an optional function of the input form and would help greatly in many applications...
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