i finally got data reports working with the dataenvironment, but now i have a new problem... using the data environment means the location of the database is hardcoded, but as it's a client server database i need some way of specifying the location separately as i won't know the location of the database until it's installed on the lan. i have got the rest of the database reading from a configuration file, is there any way i can do this for the data environment? thanks.