I had quite forgotten about the buffering / transaction / indices problems. Mainly, the framework I use takes care of that. But it does do a lot of workarounds. Like, having a method, at the application level, to eliminate indices in ALL open forms, before doing certain stuff. I even had to use this method myself.
So, I agree, the forms are not quite as independent as they should be.
>Hi Hilmar
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>>This "feature" has been known for quite a while. Each datasession is supposed to work as independently as a separate user, but it doesn't, I'm sorry to say. AFAIK, this unwanted "sharing" only happens with the ASC/DESC case.
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>Not so, it also happens if you use stand-alone IDX files - in fact, as Barbara Peisch found out ages ago, you can get yourself into a real mess if use them when their tables are open in multiple data sessions. I had some stuff in Kilofox about this (I quote):
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