>>for some reason when I 'repo form somerpt" within a form, and do a preview, the whole report consists of record number one,listing the way down the whole page. did I forget to do something?
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>My guess is that you do not have the database selected that is in the detail band. That the only way I've seen this happen.
>HTH
Ok, this form is to service several databases with same struct but different names. I removed the data environment for this reason, was this a mistake?
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