> transaction remains active, right ? Then when I do another edit and

post,

> is it the same transaction, or another transaction will be started on the
> server ?

AFAIK, the same transaction is used.

> Because I have a user who is working on data the half of the day
> (registration), edits, inserts.... I was planning to use a counter,

let's

> say the first 19 posts -> commitretaining, after 20 posts, a commit

instead

> of a commitretaining, and then reopening the dataset again, and so on.

Am

> I exagerating transactions or I shouldn't care about commitretaining the
> whole time, as long as my user is editing data, and then when he closes

the

> form a commit ?

I suppose that your preoccupation is about OAT.

I generally have used autocommit=True and I leave IBO take care about OAT to
me.

Until now, I hadn't problems with OAT.

But, if you aren't using ibo data aware controls to edit,post.... then your
approach is valid.

Luiz.