>What are you setting with SETALL()? When I look at the properties for the DE, I see a hard-coded database path that doesn't look like it can be changed (it's disabled in the property sheet) ... how do you get around this?


The property is disabled in the property sheet, but it is Writeable at runtime, onlye before the tables are open. So you have to call oyur code in the form.load or the DE.BeforeOpenTables method.

IN response to your question in the other thread: The main advantage to using the DE is being able to visually manage what tables are available to your form's datasession. You can work without it, sure, many do. But you will have to write something that performs the tasks for you: locating and opening the tables.