Michael,

If your table is in a DBC then you can do this by calling a stored procedure to calculate the default value and not have to worry about always coding it.

-Dan

>I'm doing an APPEND from a text file to a table, and I have defined a Default Value for one of the table fields - but the field remains blank after the import.
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>The default value includes the concatenation of other fields.
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>I presume VFP doesn't have the other field values until the record is imported - and by that time it's too late to calculate the default value???
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>Anyway... is there any way for me to force all those empty fields to be populated with the default value I have defined for the field?
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>TIA
>Michael