though I didn't really check this - it is logical that the order the cursors were added to the DE is the order they are opend in so try something like . . . DEFINE myDE as DATAENVIRONMENT ADD OBJECT oFirstTable as mycursor ADD OBJECT oSecondTable as mynextcursur END DEFINE : >What difference does it make in changing the sequence order? : : I need my parent table to be open before the child table. : : My BaseForm::Save() method, is scanning each table in the DE and doing a : TableUpdate(). For that purpose, I scan each table from the DE. The order I : will receive is the order each table was added and sometimes this is not : the order I want. The reason for that is because I don't want to : TableUpdate() my child table before the parent table. :