>Interesting, Don.
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>I still think it has to do with when the form is refreshed vs when the parent record pointer updates the related tables.

This is what I throught - that is why I put the 4 second delay in to check the values, to see if the pointer was slow in picking up the change.

>You said your child records were in a container (previous message). Did you try doing a refresh on the container?
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>Thisform.MyContainer.Refresh()?

No I did not try this. I assumed the container was refreeshed when I refreshed the form. I will try it.

Of course the pressure is off a bit now since the fornm is currently working. I will report back to you.

(I have local view problems right now)

Once agin Thank you.


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>Barbara
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>>Barbara,
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>>The good news is that I solved the problem.
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