One other option is to change the tag needed for the relation to also have the children in the order you want.

For example, if your child table is items on an order, and you want the children shown by ship date descending, you would need a tag on ORDERID+DTOS(SHIPDATE) Descending.

>Is there a way that I can have a different sort order on the grid in a form that is a parent and child form. (Chlidren are in the grid.)
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>I would also like to set the order in descending order, i.e. with the most recent record first.
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>Basically, one of the fields is a date field and I would like to show the user the latest record in the grid first.
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>TIA,
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>Mike