Passing data to reports from Forms

Another question,
we have a few Forms which call a report and pass the data directly to the report. The report itself isn't doing another query. At the moment I can't imagine a solution to that, but myabe I'm wrong.
Changing the report to get some parameters and redoing the Query is not easy to do, Because we would loose the possibility to change the result-set inb Forms (f.e. Clear-Record) and only print out the changed result-set with the report.
I would be grateful for any suggestion.
Mark

OK,
you've asked ;-)
here is one easy example.
We have a form mainly based on one main data-block which corresponds to onw DB-Table which has a PK.
we have some more blocks which are used for selection-fields, and so on.
After setting the selection-fields and executing the query there could be f.e. in the Data-Block 10 rows. After that the User could delete f.e. 5 records with Shift-F4. This deletion is only done in the Forms-Block there is no action in the DB as well as no locking.
After that he starts the reports-Object which is related to that particular Forms-Block. This relation is setup in the Form-Builder as Datasource-Block and Query-Name (both can't be changed at runtime).
The clou is, that reports receives this Datablock and reads (I'm not sure where) only the 5 rows left in the Forms-Block.
If I think about a IAS-Implementation whith a client on PC1 the Forms-Service on SRV1 and the Reports-Service on SRV2 that could be tricky to solve.
regards,
mark

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Joseph Schwertner ([email protected]):
Dear Jenny,
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<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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