FRM-40654 “Record has been updated by another user”
There are several reasons you might get this error in Oracle Forms, e.g. another user has modified the record before you saved it (as the error message suggests), or a table trigger has modified the record and your form’s DML Returning Value is set to No.
Another cause to chalk up is what one of my colleagues got today. He made a form with a simple table-based block, he would insert a record and save successfully, then try to modify it and consistently got FRM-40654 when he tried to save. No other user was trying to update the row, and there were no triggers on the table.
The answer? The table is an index-organised table, but the block on the form had Key Mode set to Automatic. I suspect the form is comparing the ROWID of the before-and-after change, but because the table is index-organised the ROWID is not necessarily constant. Whatever the reason, changing the Key Mode to Updateable or Non-Updateable solves the problem.