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In Advanced Revelation, collector windows are used to gather information from the user, such as the start date and end date of a report, and then passing that information to another process, such as a report.  The report would then be based on the date range entered by the user.  

In OpenInsight, the preferred method of gathering this type of information is to use a dialog box.  You create a dialog box in the Form Designer by creating a form with the No Table option, and then add controls to the form to gather the information.  A typical dialog box displays as follows:

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The following discussion will describe: 

• How to pass data from a window to a dialog box

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and 

• How the dialog box passes the user response back to the window.