Good morning, Because I wasn't fast enough with exploring the possibility of adapting the conservation modules of TMS in a manner that was acceptable for our conservation department, they went ahead and created their own database that they use for their own purposes. It's a beautiful database, and is very useful for them. They also had very strong feelings of mistrust of the security abilities of TMS and did not want access to many of their reports to general users. Now, though, they are starting to realize some of the benefits of having at least some of their data accessible through TMS. They don't want to talk about mapping a conversion to dump their data into TMS yet, but they think that they want the ability within TMS to capture a report of specific fields from their database. They suggested doing this through some sort of hyperlink. I haven't talked with Gallery Systems about this yet, but I will. I have a feeling that this is not an unique problem for me, though, so was curious about if anyone was dealing with multiple databases and trying to merge them in a way that would enable both to operate dynamically or independently? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David David Aylsworth Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Registrar for Collections telephone: 713-639-7824 fax: 713-639-7780