>>>The only way I see passing the values of from UI to BIZ to DA is by passing them as parameters when instantiating BIZ class and respectively DA class. But the number of this properties/parameters would be too many and kludgy. So I am looking for a better way.
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>>No, there's only one parameter - the object itself.
>>
>>You'll need something like this (in metacode):
>>
>>

*-- the new object's .init
>>lparameters toParent
>>n=amembers(aPr, toParent, "UC")
>>for i=1 to n
>>   lcProp=aPr[i]
>>   do case
>>      case inlist(lcProp, "name" ... and any other property we want to skip)
>>*-- do nothing
>>      case {any other exception}
>>*-- do nothing
>>      case pemstatus(this, lcProp, 5)
>>         this.addproperty(lcprop, getpem(toParent, lcProp))
>>   endcase
>>endfor
>>

>>Not eactly sure of the aPr array, may need to look at what exactly does aMembers do for various parameters - this is just to get you started, but shouldn't need much work.
>
>Dragan,
>
>I understand what you are suggesting. I think it should work.

Just a note: the .addproperty line is where it happens - and it will work regardless of the existence of the property in the new object. If it has the property, it will just set it; if it doesn't, it will create it, and no error either way.