>>I think this is a fairly straight forward question so any help would be appreciated.
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>>If I have 2 forms both with private data sessions and data gets changed in 1 that also is in the second how do I ensure that the second form refreshes from disk to use this updated value. (The record pointer in the table is not being moved!)
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>>I thought setting the Refresh value should do this but it seems not?
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>>Thanks in anticipation.
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>I have this situation, with parent-child forms. The user changes values in the child form; a total in the parent form has to be updated.
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>I decided to simply issue ThisForm.Refresh() (in the parent form), in Form.Activate(). This won't update the parent form immediately, though.
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>Other places where you could update forms might include: 1) a timer, 2) an object reference in the child form.
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>HTH, Hilmar.

Thanks Hilmar I'll give that a go.

It would be much cleaner however is the Set Refresh actually did this automatically, any idea why it doesn't the help certainly implies that it should.