>I have just forayed into using _MemeberData. I need to know if the scope of defined favorites and property names are valid for the current class-level and it's child classes.

MemberData has a really strange inheritance scheme. For each attribute, the following happens:

1) the current item is checked. If it specifies the attribute, that's the value used and the search stops.

2) the inheritance hierarchy is searched, so that it you've defined the attribute for an ancestor class, that's used and the search stops.

3) the _containership_ hierarchy is searched, so that if you've defined the attribute for a containing object, that's used and the search stops.

4) the global MemberData store (in the FoxUser table) is searched. If there's a value for the attribute there, it's used and the search stops.

5) the default value for the attribute is applied.

In addition, at any level, you can specify Override, so that steps 2, 3 and 4 aren't performed and you go right to step 5.

Tamar