Hi Everyone:

I'm not sure if this is going to make sense but I'll try anyway. I am creating a view using select statement. i'm using the view for a grid. the view will have email addresses, contact name, customer_id, and a checkbox. The checkbox allows the user to select all the people to send an email to in a group email.

i'm trying to accomplish two things:
1. add the field to the view to hold the value of the checkbox in the grid. this field has nothing to do with the tables that are being represented in the rest of the view. this field will only be used to store what the user selects in a grid from a check box. I would prefer not to have to add another field to a table to store this value.

I don't know the way to do a select statement in which the field that will store the value of the checkbox is created. It is not coming from a table. I've tried to use a .null. value, and that didn't work. I've also tried "select .f. as f_chk", and although that works (ie it creates a field in the view with the proper datatype), it doesn't seem to be a "clean" solution. is there another way to do this?

2. I know I will have problems making this portion (the checkbox value portion) of the view updateable. nothing else from the grid is updateable, just the results from the checkbox. I've used dbsetprop before updating table fields from view fields. However, I've done some searching in the MSDN library and cannot seem to find a case where only the view field is updated. Can anyone provide the dbsetprop language to update only a view field based on the value of the checkbox in a grid? I am thinking that it is only a one line item.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Paul