Neil,

Is the parent form set to Private DS? Do you launch your form from a button on the host form with a DO FORM?

You should be able to use the SET window to help you figure out what is going on with your data sessions. The cbo at the top of it will let you see and switch between all of the active DSs.

>It is set to default data session. I still get the same problem.
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>What I have noticed is that when I use a simple select statement to select the article table in my main calling program I get the following message:
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>Alias 'ARTICLE'is not found.
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>If I select this table in the softwares environment its fine. therefore when I start up my program and before my form I type:
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>select article
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>This is the table what I want open in its current position
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>I get the message above.