>I have 2 grids on a form. The first grid contains a clients name and where the clients tables are stored on the network. Like:
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>column 1 column2
>Clientabc d:\clientabddir\
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>I want the information in column 2 of grid1 to change the record source of grid 2. I put this in the when event of grid1:
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>thisform.grid2.recordsource = Alltrim(thisform.grid1.column2.text1.value) + "charges.dbf"
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>thisform.grid2.refresh()
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>I get nothing.
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>I must be missing a property or something. This seemed like it was going to be easy at the onset.
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>Jill

Grid expects to have alias as recordsource, i.e. you should open the table and use its alias afterwards, e.g.
USE c:\...\charges in 0 alias mycharges
thisform.grid2.recordsource="mycharges"
thisform.grid2.recordsource

Also, the appropriate place would be grid1.afterrowcolchange event.