Nancy,

I could be way off but, Is the assign method in the superclass? If so did you add code to the assign in the concrete class and not issue a dodefault()?

hth

>Mike,
>
>Yes, I'm *sure* it doesn't fire. I break at the assignment line--IF EMPTY( this.alias), and the code continues w/o executing the assign.
>
>FWIW, the method has code in it in the superclass from which data subclasses inherit. When the program breaks, I verify that that the assign method is in the list of populated methods for the object, and the code is there. Oddly, I can't double-click any line in the access method to make a breakpoint.
>
>The baseclass is custom.
>
>The code is irrelevant since the method never fires < bg>, but it is:
>

IF EMPTY( this.Alias )
>	LOCAL lcSN
>	lcSN = this.SourceName
>	IF EMPTY( lcSN )
>		RETURN .NULL.
>	ENDIF
>	lcSN = SUBSTR( lcSN, RAT( '\', lcSN ) + 1 )
>	this.Alias = lcSN
>ENDIF
>RETURN THIS.alias