>>>Okay, I've finally had almost marginal success with creating a useful view. I've even figured out that I needed a paramatized view and succeeded in having view appear as a grid on a page in my form. It even moves to the correct record when I click my next button which is tied to my parent table. Sounds good so far. My keypress method (down arrow)is supposed to add a new record to the table the view is based on, and it does. HOWEVER, I can't get the grid to refresh (yes, I've tried requery)unless I move to a new record and then back, in which case I can see the new entry. Any suggestions? TIA --lincoln
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>>If you add record to table, then you should =Requery("view") and then Grid.refresh to get new record in grid. However, normal interface usually works in opposite way: adds record to view, and only after this sends new record to table using Tableupdate(...,'view')
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>I'm a reluctant convert to views. They scare me. But let me see if I understand your suggestion.
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>My current insert command is as follows(sort of):
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>Insert Into Table1(parent_id,other_id) Values (Parent.parent_id,Other.other_id)
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>If I understand you correctly I should be doing something like:
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>Insert Into ViewTable1(parent_id,other_id) Values (Parent.parent_id,Other.other_id)
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>Am I getting warm?

Yes, and it's not my suggestion :), it's normal VFP way. The idea is that when you add record to a view, it's not in table yet, i.e. your interface can have Cancel functionality before you will issue Tableupdate() to send data changes from view to table.