To add to my last message:

When I say a 'DBC other than the one specified at design time', I mean a DBC at a different relative path than the one at design time.

Mark

>Ernst,
>If you want the cursors in your dataenvironments to use tables from a DBC other than the one specified at design time, I find I have to change the Cursor.Database property for each table (cursor) in the DE. For instance, I do this in the BeforeOpenTables event of the DE of one particular form:
>
>THIS.Cursor1.Database = DBC()
>THIS.Cursor2.Database = DBC()
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>This assumes that the exe already OPENed the correct DBC previously. There are other ways to accomplish this as well, as discussed here on the UT.
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>Mark
>
>>I'm working in an environment with a developing directory and different directories with original data. For testing I have a database container with the same name as the database container in the real-data directory.
>>For testing new program versions with the original data I have a link on my desktop with
>>the program path c:\developdir\myapp.exe and
>>execute in f:\originaldata\
>>
>>The problem is that the application under these circumstances always uses the data from my devoloping environment, also if i use set defa to F:\originaldata\in my main program. How can I force my application to use allways the database from the directory that i specify in my link ?