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>>>I think that issuing a GOTO RECNO() would re-etablish the relationship for you. You might try that instead of moving off and back to the record.
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>>I thought that worked for existing records.
>>But now he is adding a new record, so record number = -1 (or -n if he has created n unsaved items)
>>You can't go to a record with a negative number, so this won't work
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>Sounds as if my testing was imcomplete.
>I had tried it in the command window by
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>setting buffering to 3,
>issuing an APPEND BLANK
>changing the field
>doing GOTO RECNO()
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>and it worked. Based on what you said, I don't doubt that it won't in different circumstances.
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>The bigger problem, which I didn't notice (and should have tested) before I posted, is that after all this, the changes had been posted and TABLEREVERT() was no longer available. Since that was the reason for the original post, it looks as if I was wrong on several counts.
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>Thanks for the lesson...........Rich

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I have never tested it that way, but in one of my forms i sometimes store the record number to a variable
When i issue goto variable later it didn't work for newly added records, and it gaves me an error. For the already existing records it worked.
(I used tablebuffering)