>>Yes, that will surely work, but I think Puri will also benefit from mentioning the possibility of stating

_Screen.ActiveForm.property

in the report field, or any other UDF outside the active form for that matter
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>>Best
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>Are you guys doing this? I know you can't use thisform. in the report, since the report is not contained in a form.

Bob,

Ehhh you're right. The Thisform.Syntax won't work. Sorry about that.

Marc
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>Using _screen.activeform.property may work, but what happens when the print screen gets focus?
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>How about declaring a private variable with a reference to the form?
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>private opCallingForm
>opCallingForm = this
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>This in the report you would access...
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>opCallinForm.property
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>Of course, then the report would need to be hard coded to always use opCallingForm...
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>Perhaps you can also create privates of the form properties...
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>private var1,var2,var3,var4
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>var1 = thisform.var1
>var2 = thisform.var2
>var3 = thisform.var3
>var4 = thisform.var4
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>report form ...
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>BOb