>Hello,
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>In a form's DE I have a table and a child table like Company and Street, while the Company.StrId is linked to Street.StrId. On a combobox the streetname should be displayed, and can be changed using the combobox as well.
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>Normally I do the update of the Company.StrId in the save method (like Replace Company.StrId WITH Street.StrId), and I do not bind the combobox to a data field, because it never seems to work (the Combobox shows the Street.Description). But I think there must be an easier way, and maybe somebody can explain me how to do this.

The combobox can be bound to a field other than the one displayed, e.g.,

With thisform.cboStreet
  .ControlSource = "company.strid"
  .RowSourceType = 6 && fields
  ** note: first column in RowSource is always the displayed column when
  ** the drop-down is not dropped
  .RowSource = "street.description,strid"
  .BoundColumn = 2   && strid
  .BoundTo = .T.     && if strid is numeric, if not, doesn't matter
  .ColumnCount = 1   && shows only the first field when the combo is dropped
EndWith

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>Thanks for you help (and best wishes for the new year to all!)