>That was quick.
Nothin' like avoiding my own programming, eh?

I went back to your original msg just to make sure I hadn't missed something, and I don't think I did, so I'll try rephrasing my answer (sorry, for the confusion!)

Your search form should have access to the data that was opened the calling form. You should check this first, by, for example, suspending the form in the form.init() and see if one of the aliases is USED(). Do you know what I mean by using a watchpoint debugger to check this?

If you cannot see the data from the first form then there is another problem, and I would ask you these questions:

1. Is the search form using the default data session?
2. Does the search form open any tables in its DE?

Once you can see the data then, yes, you do have to have SET DATABASE TO database that has the captions.

Does this help?