>Dragan,
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>Thanks, but what if I'm using Views to populate my grid. I can't use ALTER TABLE on a View. Will I have to add a Formula field on something to my Views (over 20 of them). I''d like to be able to get the result without having to alter the View. (I have a couple of instances where it MAY be a cursor, but mostly Views.)
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>Thanks

If the view isn't updatable (at least not from the grid), you can create a cursor with the same fields as the view, plus this one field, and then zap it and append from dbf("viewalias") whenever you need to populate the grid, and then do the above trick on this cursor.

If the views are updated from within the grid, then this is a problem. You may do some scheme to post updates from the cursor back into the view, but I think it's not worth the trouble, and you're actually losing some of the control over validation etc. You may still create a separate cursor like Fabio said, with this column there, and have a relation from your view into this cursor. That would work.