Strange behaviour indeed. Do you have any code in the keypress events? I assume these are public variables? You may want to consider changing the app to use SCATTER NAME to a custom property (oNewRecord) of the form instead. This way everything is wrapped up into a nice little object.

>i do not think so. but who knows. it is peculiar that the fields autofills when he types the first letter, not after he is done and then tabs.
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>>Could a missed refresh be the culprit here?