>Hi Alastair,
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>>Is this by design, and without using Forms is there anything you can do about this? It will not cause me a problem (I don't think) but I was still surprised that this was the case...I'd have figured that each instance was *COMPLETEY* self-contained.
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>Have a look at instancing in Project Info (Server tab). I think you probably set it to single which creates only one automation server and all others would be references. Set it to multiple intancing and hopefully you should be OK.

You can't do that in VFP 5.0. You can in 6.0 and there the data sessions are indeed separated. In VFP 5.0 multi-instancing pretty much requires a true
stateless server that reestablishes its environment on each request.

+++ Rick ---