>>Suppose the init of a form USES a table and sets a filter based on a local variable as in
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>>** form.init
>>lparams lcFilter
>>use mytable
>>set filter to field1 = lcFilter
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>>The form also has a button for BROWSE but the browse fails because the variable lcFilter is out of scope for the button. What is the best technique to deal with this?
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>>- Don
>
>Could you use a form property rather than the variable?

That would be an option, Yes.
Thanks