>I've always developed my Client/Server applications using my forms' DataEnvironments (private), and these DE's have remote views on them, so when the forms are run with DO FORM the remote views al automatically opened with all its defines properties (like NoDataOnLoad, Buffering, etc.).
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>Is there a way that I can open those remote views "manually"? That is, instead of the remote views being opened automatically by the Data Environment, they, by somehow reading the Data Environment, can be opened manually by code (e.g. using the USE command or some function defined by the user), allowing me to, for example, change the connection using the CONNSTRING clause of the USE command, or use TRY...CATCH...END when each remote view is opened, among other things.

The usual place for this is either the DE's .init() (if you mean to keep the DE) or in the form's .load() (because it executes before anything else, specially before the bound controls are instantiated, so you get the datasources ready before they are).

Of course, you'd need to remove the cursor objects from the DE, so the views don't get opened twice, and (as I'd recommend) remove the DE altogether. Having code in any of the DE's events was always a black hole to me - if anything ever creates a bug there, it's hardest to find, because it's in its separate space, out of sight and easily forgotten.