Hi Nadya and Carmen;
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> select XXXX ( table )
> scatter name thisform.propertyname memo ( if necessary )
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>I was then able to access the various elements using the syntax
> thisform.propertyname.fieldname
>the key for me was to make sure I preceeded every reference with thisform.propertyname.xxxx
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Both of examples (m.myfield, thisform.mybuff.myfield) that I has described here, works really, really, really fine here.. I don't know what's going on some user's fox/machines. Maybe is time, to start a new thread to find for some answers.
CLAUDIO
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, Ephesians 3:20