Use of the Grid

a better way might be to modify your query so it only returns the rows you need. the approach above would take twice as long because you're going through the recordset once to remove unwanted items, then going through it again to display the data.

i don't use the DTC's in VI, and i don't recall how to do that, but i'll look into it.

Sorry I should have put the reason why I wanted to do this. The data I am returning comes from 3 different databases. One database is a program database that holds queries, forms etc the second is a reference or lookup database that holds full description of items and the data database holds the data and uses the reference database to provide description of codes stored in the data database.  Therefore I scan the data database to return records required and add them to an array, next I reference the lookup database to supply the description of the codes and update the array.

For example the data returned for an employee from the data database would have a location code of TAF01, lookinhg up the refence database would provide me with an address for that location which I would then replace in the array with the location address rather than the location code.

i would suggest writing the code to iterate through the three recordsets without using a grid control. your code will be a lot cleaner than the generated code.

i'll try and get some time to look into this over the weekend...

The reason I wanted to use the grid is I'm not to happy with a plain table, I originally loaded all the data into arrays and then produced the table, also I like the look of the grid rather than the borders on the table.

Regards..

Peter.

i couldn't find a way to do this. there is no way to set the grid control to pull from more than one recordset, and the one recordset it can pull from needs to be designated through DTC's, not the code itself.

as far as appearance goes, the grid is just html. view the source, and that should give you an idea of what to change to make it look the same.

I have found another way to do this, there is a product called VbsDb (free) which is a series of ASP pages that load and format data from recordsets.

I will close off the question tomorrow.

Regards....

Peter.

Thanks, never even thought of trying that approach.

Regards
Peter..