>Suppose there is a form with a grid and a combobox that opens with no tables open. The user types the name of a file into a textbox and clicks a button to open the file. As in
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>lcFileToOpen = txtbox.value
>use (lcFileToOpen) in 0 alias currenttable
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>Then we issue:
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>thisform.grid1.recordsource = currenttable
>thisform.grid1.init
>thisform.grid1.refresh
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>but nothing happens.
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>So my question is: How do you dynamically set a source table for a grid?
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>As always, Thanks for any help on this one.
thisform.grid1.recordsource = "currenttable"
Or if you have it in a variable (cAlias = ALIAS("currenttable"), then you would use your syntax.
You need quotation marks to do it in code.