Thanks Geoff, you're right. It was KeyDescLinks. It's working great.

Bob.

"Geoff Worboys" <geoff@...> wrote in message
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> Hi Bob,
>
> > I have a LookupCombo in a grid. The grid is displaying a detail
> > dataset, and the lookup combo is reference to another table. However
> > I want the LookupCombo to display a descriptive field, rather than a
> > primary key. See below:
>
> Takea look at the Company sampel app - the FRM_Employee unit. That
> shows the use of IB_LookupCombo on a grid with descriptive display.
> Pay particular attention to the lookupdataset.KeyDescLinks property -
> which ties the descriptive field from the lookup to the
> computed/embedded-select descriptive field on the main dataset. This
> is necessary to use lookupcombo on grids.
>
> hth
>
> --
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing
>
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