Hi,
You possibly have a tag and file alias conflict. Reference the tag as alias.companies and see what happens.

>VFP 8
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>I got a form with 3 remote views on the data enviroment.
>it runs fine but when i compile the app to an EXE the forms load fine you can see the data on the grig but just for a brif second then the grid goes blank an error is displaied "Alias 'companies' is not found".
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>I tried seting the close tables property to .f. on the data enviroment with no efect.
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>any ideas?
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>thanks.