>>Explain exactly what you are trying to do. Sometimes, we might be able to >come up with an alternative solution to what you are doing.
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>Ok, Dan, let's go!
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>I have a form in which I put an OutLine control. This outline is loaded with records of a table. When I run the form, the outline is displayed such the sample below:
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>+ Customers
>+ Products
>+ Sales
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>If the user click in an item (for example, the first item), the outline is expanded, such below:
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>+ Customers
> + John
> + Paul
> + Bill
>+ Products
>+ Sales
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>What I'd like to do is to control this expansion... for example, if user is in the form of customers, and then he call the form with outline, the outline must be displayed as the prior example (customers expanded)...
>If user is in the form of Products, and then he call the form with outline, the outline must be displayed with the item Products expanded... and so on...
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>Did you understand? I'd like to open the outline's tree until an specif iten programatically...
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>Best Regards!

This sounds very much like a treeview. I am more familiar with the treeview. Are you using a treeview. Can you use a treeview?