Great solutions Jim. I ended up editing the SCX manually and it's working now but I'll remember your suggestions next time. Thank you.
>John,
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>You could let the combo that needs it create the DE container from its Init.
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>You could put the DE and the combo in a container and put the de in there first.
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>You could leave the combo unbound and bind it in the form's Init.
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