Mmmmm. I do have the table open in DS1 but my form is running in a private DS. The test I just performed showed DS9. something smells fishy here!

Aha! the table was used EXCL in the other DS.

Thanks



>The error means that table is already open in the same datasession.
>
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>>The table is open in the default datasession and another program in another datasession is attempting
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use sometable again alias "sometable"

>>Error 3
>>File is in use
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