Penda,
I tried but failed to come up with a way to open the data environment on the fly when opening the report's design window.

I reported this inconsistency between the design and runtime environments to Microsoft, but never got any response.

Sorry I couldn't be more help. Anyone else????

Murray

>Murray,
>Thank you for replying. Is there a way of programatically opening and closing the datasession while the report designer is running?