it that the only way to do it? is there a way to pass data between forms through menus?

>Hi!
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>You can temporary define the public variable that will store the reference to the object you want, than access that object in the menu commands.
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>HTH.
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>>g'day,
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>>how can you pass data ( such as a calling form object referance ) through a shortcut menu ( or anymenu for that matter )?
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>>I've tried adding a Lparameters statement to the menu procedure and then on right click < do ShourtcutMenu.mrp with this to that >, but Error not paraemters statment found ( because the first line to execute on right click is are define pad functions )
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>>would i need modifiy the code from from the menu designer or is there another way of doing it?
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>>thanks
>>- jer