>Jim,
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>>I must have traversed up and down the calling stack for two days before I opened my preferences and noticed that the path to my dbc was '\prod\compile\newkirk\data\newkirk.dbc' instead of 'g:\prod\compile\newkirk\data\newkirk.dbc'. I don't know how the cursors managed to load correctly, but the calling stack kept returning .f. for This.oDataenvironment. Because the errormsg was commented out, I never saw the error. Perhaps you could put the error back in so that others won't have to go through this?>
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>Did my comment that "this is probably a case of the application not being able to find the data" come back and haunt you <bg>?
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>The data environment should not display messages to the user since it resides in tier 2.
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>Regards,

That makes sense, and you can believe I'll never make that mistake again! Because I have spent the last two days combing the business and dataenvironment objects with a fine-tooth comb, I have a much better understanding of how these objects work together. All is not lost (only some of my hair).