>>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.
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>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,

So, in 6.0, if I set a server to be multiple instanced, each time I do a CREATEOBJECT() on the server I would have to open the data environment? That's the way I would expect it to work...