Carmen,

>Is there a way to access the value of a property on a form when a child form is launched? I thought you could access the value of any property by prefacing that property with the name of the form. When I try that, I receive an alias not found error.

Sergey already suggested one good way. Another way would be to add a property to your child form called 'oCallingForm'. Then put the following code into the Init() method of the child form:

IF TYPE("_SCREEN.ActiveForm.Name") == "C"
  THIS.oCallingForm = _SCREEN.ActiveForm
ENDIF

HTH,
Armin