>Hi Edward,
>
>i wnat to learn more from u,
>
>the process of reporting in my system as below:
>
>*** report01.PRG
>MSTATUS = 1
>MDATA_FR = DATE()-DAY(DATE())+1
>MDATE_TO = DATE
>DO FORM RPT001 LINKED TO M_ABORT
>IF M_ABORT
>RETURN
>ENDIF
>REPOR FORM RPT__01 TO PRINT FOR STATUS=MSTATUS .AND. ;
>BETW(DOC_DATE,MDATE_FR,MDATE_TO)
>***
>
>You can see, i run a .prg first. So i had define the MSTATUS before i access the screen form. (cause i can not get the Optiongroup.value in my .prg
>
>As you told me, we can use the Optiongroup.value at the end. That meaning we must put the REPO FORM into the screen form.
>
>Now i want to know, which way is better for us (programmer)

Both ways are doable. My personal preference is not to use PRGs at all (actually my projects contain just two of them: main and sysproc).