For example:

Create your report by issuing create report from the command window.
When the report is open in the designer, click on View on the menu and select Data Environment.
Right click on the data environment window and select Add...

If the cursor does not exist because it is created on the fly during runtime, then for design purposes, create the cursor to use its fields in design mode and temporarily create it as a table on the hard drive while designing the report. Delete it when finished designing the report. Remove the table from the data environment because you don't want it opened automatically and you don't want the report to look for it everytime the report is modified. Also turn off autoOpenTables and AutoCloseTables in the dataenvironment properties. I typically do this while designing the report and then when the report is run during runtime, I create the cursor on the fly and make sure it is selected before I issue the report form command. There are other methods in VFP9 but start with the simplest. For instance, you could issue the select statement in the init of the dataenvironment and then set This.InitialSelectedAlias to the name of the cursor...



>Hi all,
>
>I'm rather new to VFP9, and I find the Report Designer quite different from the
>previous versions, with many added features
>
>My first question is, could someone tell me how one adds a cursor to the dataenvironment of a report, so that I could drag and drop fields?
>
>Besides, I haven't learnt about Report Listener, and other new features yet. Is there any site I can visit, which gives freshers a comprehensive, and easy idea of things?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Steve.