>David,
>Just adding the cursor to the DE doesn't open the table < s >. So, after adding it you either need to call the DE's openTables method, or open it yourself. Note that the former will cause an error if the DE has other tables in it that are already open.
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>HTH
>
>>I imagined that if I added a cursor to the dataenvironment as follows...
>...snip
>>I would see the available tables in the report designer. Not only can't I see ...snip

Hi, and thanks, Nancy,
The cursor table is already 'open'. Do you mean something else by 'open it yourself'?

The real issue is really that I can't see any tables at all in the expression builder of the report form at run-time. That's despite there being two 'free' tables already opened by the DE and the cursor that I created and added to the DE. There isn't even a table drop-down box in the expression builder like there used to be. So I'm a little confused and bewildered.