Don't explicitly open the view in the child form, but set the controlsource for each control to the view.field

When the child form is closed do not tableupdate, but refresh the parent form.

>I have a form in which data is added to a optimistic buffered database.
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>Depending upon the value of a field, a second form may or may not open to complete additional fields for the record.
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>If the second form opens, during a 'add' transaction how would I insure the values get to the buffered record? ...use m->, m., xyz->?
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>What is happening now, I add the remaining fields, do the tableupdate and the data never makes it to the record.
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>Thanks.