>Craig,
>
>Actually I'm not using views. I was going to do this with pass-thru. That
>leaves the question of how to get a data source open to bind fields to.
>
>Thanks


You have a couple of ways:

- In the Form.Load you can query the data, but add the condition WHERE 1=0. This will return an empty cursor.

- After the initial query of the data, call a method that populates the ControlSource properties.

Personally, I like option 1.