>>I just do a SQL - SELECT like
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>>select description,id from choices where status='A' or id=mycurrentrecord.id
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>Indeed! This is a perfect solution. For ALL these years, that idea had never occurred to me. It took about 3 lines of code to implement (done as my record pointer is moved).
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>I'm ashamed to say what I was previously doing to handle this.


The simple solutions are the most gratifying for sure. Glad I could help.