Neil,

If your form is set to Default DataSession and it's launched from inside a Private DS form then your form will be running inside the same private DS and therefore have access to the same tables/cursors and be sitting on the right recno for what you are wanting todo.

You should not have any tables in your form's data environment, unless they are additional ones that you need to open for your form to work.

>Thanks for your reply. HHmmm. All I know is that I am using a program supplied by our software vendor. Rather then fork out a lot of money we thought we would do a type of add on. Therefore when my program is invoked I want the current record that I am on in the table which is part of my software vendors program.
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>I know I could pass the key of the record as a parameter when my program invokes and then access the table externally by using that parameter, then I could grab the information. I have done this and it works fine. But I was just wandering whether I could access the record that I am on with my own form. The program that has been supplied to us does give you the ability to invoke external programs. Therefore my new program is an extension to their program. I wanted the ability to add more fields. So I have created my own form with a table that is related to the software providers program table. But my form is to display some data from their table and all other data stored in my own. Therefore I was jujst wnadering because I am in their environment and I try and open their table in the DE of my form whether I can get the form to display the information on the current record rather than opening anothe instance of the table which I think is what is happening.