CURSORGETPROP("SourceType") will answer your question about views and CursorAdapter, CURSORGETPROP("Database") - what DBC table belongs to.

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>How does one determine the type of record set in a given work area? I'd like to know:
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>a) if the table is a cursor (not too hard with a check of dbf())
>b) if the table belongs to a database, and if so which one
>c) perhaps other sources (cursoradapter etc)
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>CURSORGETPROP() doesn't see to get me there... any ideas?
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>The use case here is a generic exportToExcel() function that will respect long filenames, captions etc if they are present for the passed workarea.
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