Claudio,

What VFP version you're using? Jim Booth confirmed, that your approach worked in VFP7.0, not in VFP6.0

Using thisform property will work in any version and it works for Carmen. I'm using table buffering in my applications, so I haven't tested the proposed solution.

>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.
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>CLAUDIO