Setup:

Database 1 (main)

Database 2 (main/layouts)

Reason:

Since there's no realistic way that I can keep users from editing layouts and screwin' up stuff, I've created another database that allows the users to access the same information and make layouts as needed.

Issue:

I have these 2 databases and they switch through layouts quite often. If I perform a find in the MAIN database and then go into the second database it goes away (kinda obvious).

Question:

How do I bring over find criteria to a related database? Is there another way I could be doing this? I'm buggin' out here!

Thanks!

~Addam~ Question

Forgive me, but that is a slightly odd setup. I cannot think of any instance where I would give users access to layout mode. Are they creating letters? Reports? Drawings? If so, there are more efficient methods, and you could do this:

Database1: (main)

Database2: (forms - your letters, reports, whatever on pre-defined layouts).

Relate them using record ID, and you can create many different forms for the same record.

Possible?

Ken