It's a TAG you specify in the Childorder property, not a FIELD. Could that be your problem?

>Barbara,
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>Yes, I forgot to say that in design-time (IDE) I've set both ChildOrder and RecordSource for the Grid in the form.
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>Remember that the Child table used to create source for data for grid is named: dd_earappdwg
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>It has a field: rd_dsort
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>RecordSource: dd_earappdwg
>ChildOrder: rd_dsort
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>I am not executing any SQL or other Data query code at load of form and embedded grid.
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>Fred Z