Alex:

Sorry to bother you again but I have searched for the last 2 hours trying to get this right. The problem is that I am a beginner and every book that I have doesn’t address any basics nor does searching the web return any walk throughs.

Let’s start fresh with what you told me:

1.I created a view and filtered it by a parameter named ( ?parssnumber ). Run the browse and it prompts me. I enter in ‘222-22-2222’ and I get the results. Everything good.

2. I design a new form, open the data environment and drag the partcont view on the form, I get prompted enter ‘222-22-2222’ ,then somehow it codes this somewhere and everytime I try to run the form the records are filtered by 222-22-2222)

3.Design a new form this time with wizard. Use the view and add the fields. Run the form, prompted for parssnumber, enter ‘222-22-2222’ everything works fine.

4.Open the new form, add a property call initparameter. Go to the initparameter property and enter 222-22-2222.

5.Go to the init() of the main form and add:

parssnumber=thisform.initparameter
use partcont

6. Still prompts me, even though I hard coded the property.