> We've mentioned a several occasions that buffering is now the way to go > instead of scatter. > > But, in the situation where the user is doing a data entry in the temporary > table which has the same structure has the master table, and we then use a > transfer button to move the record from the temporary table into the master > table, isn't the only way to go scatter and gather? I'd use scatter/gather, but then, Append From TempTable is some alternative, isn't it? Though it's probably not a table, it's a cursor, so we'd have to Append From (dbf("cursorname")), and do it For Not Deleted(), just in case user ocassionally changed his mind... and then we'd have to zap the cursor (or re-create it) after the move (but this is the same if we scatter/gather). Yes, scatter/gather is much better. Still, the Memvars or array in use should be local for the rout... method doing the move.