I don't know if there is an easy way to deal with this or not.

Most applications will have multiple transactions, and certainly
different apps don't share the same transactions. A transaction
only "sees" information that has been updated or added that is
attached to it's own transaction. When something is changed in
another app or transaction, what is the best way of updating that
info to other apps or transactions?

I use a transaction refresh to update, but it seems illogical to have
to have a user continually press a refresh button. I have also played
around with IB_Event to notify the app of changes to key records.

How does everyone else deal with this? Is there some generic
procedures that can be used?

Thanks,
Paul