There is nothing stoping you from opening the table with USE in the Init() of the second form. However, if some fields should be bounded to this table, you will have to bound them programmaticaly in the Init() of your form.

HTH

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>I am trying to pass a variable from "formone" to use to open a table in "formtwo".
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>This is in a command.click on formone and, appears to be successful:
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>command.click()
>Thisform.release
>mtable = ThisForm.Hstxttable.value
>do form hsfrmsynarchive with mtable
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>This is in formtwo.init() and appears successful:
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>formtwo.init()
>lparameters mtable
>thisform.r_synfile = mtable
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>The problem is the formtwo.load() completes before the formtwo.init() and therefore I can't use the 'thisform.r_synfile' property to determine which table to open in the formtwo.load().
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>Is is possible to load the tables in the formtwo.init() or are there other ideas which would allow me to open the selected table?