Justin,

The closest I came to hiding the field in a subform is making a field.  make it very small and remove the label. When this will appear in the subform, it will be very small and may be you put it at the end. For all practical value it would not be seen. You may put goto command on element entry event so the cursor will not stick for anybody to use F6 key and read it and at the same time you can put whatever value you need to by using code.  Just wondering if this may work for you.

We guys here have a lot to learn form programmers, so please stick around and guide us as you feel necessary. Wellcome to the Forum.

I know that it will work better in 1.0.2 than in 1.0.1 - but I have had great success communicating between parent and child forms using @FormResultSetCurrentPosition and @FormFieldValue in combination:

In Countries.db:

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// On ENTER Form for City in CIties subform

var ii as int
var str as string

// Find out what instance of the parent we are on.
ii = @FormResultSetCurrentPosition("Countries")

// Get the Countries Population LE here in the subform
str = @FormFieldValue("Countries", "Population", ii)

// Tell the world.
WriteLn("The population of my country: " + str)

Thanks Mark, we will certainly use this.  A little note from you gives a total new perspective and opens up the whole new way for us.