Hi James

>I understand that I can't pass a cursor between datasessions. I have read suggestions to use CursortoXML and back again, but I find that XMLtoCursor can be very slow for an interactive session (25 seconds is way too long for 2900 records). I'm looking for alternatives.
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>Background: I have a class, created at the start of a user's session, which downloads a pile of data and creates summary information from it. All of my forms, with their own private datasessions, talk to this class to get the data they need. For all uses except one, using CursortoXML and back work fine, since the number of records involved is quite small ...
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>Thanks in advance,
You might consider putting that data into cursors and having the forms use the default data session. You might also consider having that object instantiated within the data session of the first form and have other forms called by buttons on the first form. Such called forms can adopt the data session of the first form.