thanks for the interest.

I'm going to need to study the code (logic) a bit more, I'm not sure all is understood, but it could be me missing something.

the following is an example for many of the possabilities:
would your code work here?

- the link field uses an internal index ( rec ) to point to another dime ( for intermediate steps )
- was thinking the rec in the display cursor would hold the recno()'s of the main table ( part_dim )(?).


visual example:

main data table ( part_dim )
op dim loc other1 other2 rec link etc...
10 1.0 A-A 1 2 1
10 1.0 B-B 1 2 2
10 2.5 B-B 1 2 3 9
10 2.5 page1 1 1 4
20 1.0 A-A 1 2 5
20 2.0 B-B 1 2 6
20 2.0 B-B 3 3 7
30 1.0 A-A 1 2 8
30 2.0 B-B 3 3 9
30 2.5 page1 1 1 10
30 2.0 A-A 3 3 11

display cursor:
op dim loc other1 other2 rec* link etc...
10,20,30 1.0 A-A 1 2
10,30 2.5 page1 1 1
10 1.0 B-B 1 2
10 2.5 B-B 1 2 2.0 (30)
20,30 2.0 B-B 3 3
20 2.0 B-B 1 2
20 2.0 B-B 3 3
30 2.0 A-A 3 3


- jer