>unfortunately, my form already met those criteria so it won't solve my problem. The reference to the _screen.activeform does the trick and I haven't got round to figuring out where the form goes out of scope.
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>Thanks
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Harry,

How are you addressing the form and from where? Obviously, the form has not gone out of scope or it wouldn't be there. Your reference to the fomr may have gone out of scope, and to fix that it would be helpfuul to know the exact code you are using to refer to the form when it doesn't work (also very impotant to know where that code is in the system).