>Thanks for your reply. You answered one of the questions I had by recommending a second view for the grandchildren, which I hadn't considered. But I am still uncertain as to whether I need to do this, i.e., what does it buy me? In the first situation, it's clear to me - a view shows me just the children related to this parent. However, in the case of one of these grandchildren I want to see all of the possible cities in case the person needs to edit the address record. So it seems to me I wouldn't need a view for that situation, is that correct?
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>The other question is still which table reference do I use for the control source in the controls which are using that view? Again, I'm assuming that I should be using e.g. Controlsource = Myview.field1, etc. and then updating the fields in the original table with those values.
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>Oh, one other thing. I'm not using the data environment (I'm opening all my tables in the load event of my form). So it looks to me like I should be using the Noupdate parameter of Use.
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>Thanks again,
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Sylvia,

Yes you neeed to use the NODATA option on your use command so the view does try to get data until you have your parameters set up. I would still us the two views and open them both. The us eof two views let's you use these same iews in other forms which have other requirements without carryig a lot of extra data baggage around with you all the time. You only need to use those views that are needed.