>when running a preview of a report in a executable, a variable 'x' is not found" error message is being issued. the variable exists and it is coming from a cursor created with a select statement. is there a bug I did not know about. the report runs fine in the vfp environment.
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Could it be that your report has the Private Datasession enabled? It might be taking data from that cursor instead of the desired one.