Interesting, Don.

I still think it has to do with when the form is refreshed vs when the parent record pointer updates the related tables. You said your child records were in a container (previous message). Did you try doing a refresh on the container?

Thisform.MyContainer.Refresh()?

Barbara

>Baraba,
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>The good news is that I solved the problem.
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>The bad news is that I do not know why.
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>The scheme works in other screens with other tables and other relationships so I looked at the ones that worked.
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>In all cases the screens that worked displayed a child field in the parent's grid.
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>When I did this with my motor-equip-comm no screen (I put the equip.description in the motor grid) it suddenly worked.
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>The problem is that I do not know why.
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>However this is a better problem to have than the original one.
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>If you think of any explanation please let me know.
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>Once again thank you.