>No we are issuing a do form xx name xx linked
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>This app before was a modal app we are trying to change it to modeless by the users request.
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>Shawn
>TIA

If the DO FORM is being called from a method, as soon as the method code has finished running, the name xx, which is a local or private variable, goes out of scope. So, the reference xx no longer exists so the form is released.

I would just have DO FORM MYFORM and leave off the rest. If you must have a name for referencing, you have to declare the name as a public variable. There are other ways of doing this but are quite a bit more involved.