Please excuse my ignorance, but I don't use the form DE very often. I set-up my cursors, etc. before I get into a form. The reason I do this is that our data is "different"...when a user edits data, we need an effective date of change and we need to save all information (before and after changes)...this is because we need specific information for any specific day.

Anyways, because I do this, I just issue commands like

USE ("DataLocation"+datafile)

before the DO FORM command. The DataLocation variable (or property) will map the data's source directory, depending on what network node you are on.

I have a question: How are multi-user DE's usually handled? In other words, if the DBC is at the file server, how do I tell the system where to find the DBC?

We have some forms with non-empty DE's, but they all use free tables and they are used before the Do FORM command...and this works fine for networked drives (using the above method), but it sounds like it won't work for DBCs.

Joe