Any place you're seeing a data environment "only," what you're really seeing is the label of the object responsible for creating the data environment. You should always place your BizObjs/cdeLogicals on a form, then set the cDataEnvironment property of the oDELoader (Data environment loader object) they contain. Look at the property sheet for the Projects object on page 1 of the Projects form and you'll see what I mean. When instantiated, the oDELoader will auto-magically create your data environment, which means you shouldn't drop your environments directly on the form.

Keep in mind that the gridlist on page 1 of the Projects form has a built-in BizObj (cListOneToManyObj1) as part of its class structure. Like all good BizObjs, it too has a data environment so that the gridlist can be populated properly. It would appear that Kevin dragged the cListOneToManyObj1's data environment to a place where it is more visible than it usually is; by default its z-order places it behind the grid.

In this case, he's also disabled the built-in BizObj(cListOneToManyObj1) in favor of the BizObj in the lower right-hand corner, called Projects -- look at the user's guide for the steps involved on how/when to do this.

Hope that helped,
---J


>Why is it that in the sample ProjMgr of Mere Mortals, the first page contains the data environment object and the business object? While in other pages, it only has a business object and one page has a data environment object only? I'm confused on when do I need to place these two objects or when do I need only one of them and which one.
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>Nerissa Dela Rosa
>McFadden's