>>>>>It's lookup by foreign key. You may call any method/procedure from controlsource expression to accomplish it.
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>>>>Ok, that's what I suspected. Then I don't like it.
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>>>Why? It's normal way.
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>>If you're doing lookup, you're connecting to the table every time. I'd like to be able to disconnect.
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>It has nothing to do with connection. You do Seek in a table. If someone changes 'Software' table in the meantime then user will be informed about description change right on spot. What's wrong with that?
>Or you mean that you use SQL-Server data?

I'm using VFP native data. I can probably simply go with set relations. My concern is that I would not be able to sort on the column if I go this route.