>>>>>>>>I'm deloping apps on a network. The production version of these apps are looking for data on the development drive. How do I change the path that the Form's Data Environment looks for the data?
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>>>>>>>Add code in Dataenvironment.BeforeOpenTables event
>>>>>>>local cDbcpathname
>>>>>>>select config && this is configuration table
>>>>>>>go top
>>>>>>>cDbcpathname=alltrim(config.dbcpname)
>>>>>>>thisformset.setall("database",cDbcpathname,"cursor")
>>>>>>>You can use this code if all DE.cursors are for dbc-tables. If you have free tables then you should modify this code to reset CursorSource properties.
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>>This procedure works fine. How can you save this as an abstract custom method on a form?
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>You can have generic oApp method 'setdatabase'
>***oApp.setdatabase
>LParameter oForm
>local cDbcpathname
>select config && this is configuration table
>go top
>cDbcpathname=alltrim(config.dbcpname)
>oForm.setall("database",cDbcpathname,"cursor")
>return
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>Each form DE will call:
>oApp.setdatabase(thisform)


This makes sense to me. I thought it would save me a lot of time if I saved this code in the DE of a form and save the form as a class. (because each form will be using the same database. This didn't work. Do you know why? Thanks for your help.