You have to save the reference in a propriety of the form, otherwise the variable will go out of scope at the end of the Init event.

PARAMETERS oform, mcallnum
THISFORM.oForm = m.oForm   && You need to create the oForm property first

You then use THISFORM.oForm when you need to reference the parent form.

BTW, referencing a parent form control from another form (specially when it's deeply localised like you case) is rarely a good idea. The day you will rename or move a control in the path, you will break the code and you it may take a while to locate and change all the references. It's far better IMHO to call a method in the parent form that will do the job for the child. For exemple:

*-- In the child form
THISFORM.oForm.ShowIt()

*-- In the parent ShowIt method
*-- Tell the control to show itself

HTH

>I have an application where a user clicks on a button and it opens another form, i call the form like this
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>DO FORM nw_insure WITH thisform, mcallnumber
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>on closing the form nw_insure i have to make a field visible on the parent form depending on certain criteria. I wanted to use
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>oform.pgfpageframe1.page3.txt_enterinitials.Visible = .T.
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>but this does not work. On the init of the nw_insure I have
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>PARAMETERS oform, mcallnum
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>so i thought that the oform.... would work. any ideas?