>I know I'm missing something basic here. I have a grid on page 2 of a pageframe with a record source based on a local view 'vaddress' and recordsourcetype = 1 Alias. column count is set to -1 so I should get a column and row for each record in the local view. No data shows up in the grid at runtime. I have textboxes showing the record count and data in the local view. This demonstrates that there is data which should be visible. Grid.enabled=.T.
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>Any ideas as to why the empty grid?

When you switch to page2 (in the activate method) put "this.refresh". If that doesn't help, put a SET STEP ON in the activate, the see if indeed the view has any data in it to display.