>>Is it good practice to have a form that calls another that calls another that calls another with the final one being the 'work' destination' form? Then backtracking thru them to the original. Keep in mind each one along the way has options htat can be selected.
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>I think it really depends on your interface needs. When the user gets to a second form from the first, is he finished with the first, or is the second form merely performing a 'child' task in relation to the first? If leaving one form for another means that I am finished with the first one, then the program should release the first form when I leave it. You don't want to make the user go back through and manually close all the windows that she has already finished looking at. On the other hand paer of the beauty of the whole windows concept is that you can leave many 'workspaces' open at once. If a user selects an option from a form that opens another form, would the user want to revert back to the first to select another option that would open another form? Would he want to see both of the option screens at once?
> I am guessing that maybe you were fishing for an answer coming from the more technical side of multiple open forms, but I have never had a technical problem with a gazillion open forms... leaving the forms open to trace back through is really more of an interface practicality issue. HTH
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>Erik

Another option, Tim, is to put the information on a pageframe in a single form. You can update data on any page with a value selected on another page. You can even switch to another page programmatically depending on the choices made.

HTH
Barbara