i have an employee form with several buttons, which provided function calls to several different forms. The problem is when i click on said "jobHistory" button to call "JobHistory" form, i would like this form to show me the selected employee record only according to employee form, instead of i have to search with the browse dialog for this employee.

kindly advice

Andrew

Have you had a look at the Child Form Dialog control? On the help, you will find it under "Application Framework" / "UI Layer" / "Controls" / "Child Form Dialog".