I tried the suggestion from Kevin regarding the changing of the access, by putting the controls in a container and then calling the setAccessFull and SetaccessReadonly methods of the container. The SetAccessReadOnly method does set all the controls to readonly and disabled, but when I move to a record that should be editable the setaccessfull method of the container does not reset the contained controls properties. I am using ccontainer. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.