>Ok, let me see if i can draw as much a visual picture as possible.
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>We have 2 sets of Data: 1 for production, and 1 for Testing.
>Production is on W:, and Testing is on T:
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>We have 1 source for the programs, and they reside on P:
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>Our need is to be able to call up VFP, go into a specific project, and make modifications and changes and then test against the TEST data - and then call up the production project that points to the PRODUCTION data and create our programs and executable...
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>Does this make any sense?
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>Right now, in our Data Environment, on everyone one of our forms or labels, or reports, the container is pointing to our production area. Is there any way that this can be changed easily to allow us to run from one set of programs, but have a test environment?
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>Thank you in advance....
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>Jeff

Only data is 'path-specific' and the way to switch from one database to another is common (you may look at parallel Thread #213577).