Yep thats pretty much what I was thinking, however I am a bit uncertain as to if you should be putting them in the load event or the init event of the form.

I guess that depends on what your objects do as regards data.

I wonder where in the event sequence VFP instatiates them when you just drop them on the form, obviously that would be the right place for you.

>>Hmm why don't you just instantiate them from within your init event or something.
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>Well, that doesn't seem like a bad idea either, thanks!
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>Just to make sure I understood, your proposing to do something like this within the init of the form:
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>o1 = createobject("patient_status_bizobj")
>o2 = createobject("Documents_requested_bizobj")
>etc etc etc, right?
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>>Or am I missing something here, which is usually the case:(
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>Welcome to the club ;-)
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>Alex