Greeting Terry

>I had some similar problems and Jim Booth suggested putting your SETs in the load method of the private data session form. That way anything that need them won't be looking for them during INITs. The form.init comes fairly late in the food chain.

yup, doing that - another example of the benefits of subclassing - put it into the init of your subclassed base form and make it conditional on the data session being = 2 (private) - that way the same base form can cope with both private and global datasessions...

Harry