Try your form.BufferMode setting. Ensure it's 2 (optimistic).
>Hello John,
>issuing the commands from the command window works fine, when I tried it from my form zilch ( no update, no error ), I set the buffering from within the DE that's the only difference I can note
>Regards
>Pete
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