>>Hello Chaps
>>
>>This continuing problem I have of FPD2.6 tables (from a legacy, still used system) that I'm using in my replacement for the old system. For some reason, the author made Y/N char fields rather than logical. I want to display certain child recs in a grid, and allow edit thereof.
>>
>>I populate the grid in the following manner:
>>

>>With Thisform
>>  lcAlias	  = ALIAS()
>>  Select JNYSTAGE
>>  lcFilter = "OPERATOR = " + STR( .nOperator, 3, 0) + ;
>>  	    " and ROUTE = '" + .cRoute + "'" + ;
>>  	    " and MCL_RTE = '" + .cMCL_Rte + "'"
>>  Set Filter To &lcFilter
>>  Locate
>>  With .pgfMainPageFrame.Page3
>>    With .grdJnyStage
>>      .Column1.chkCheck1.Value = IIF( JOURNEY	= "Y", .T., .F.)
>>      .Column4.chkCheck1.Value = IIF( STAGE 	= "Y", .T., .F.)
>>      .Column7.chkCheck1.Value = IIF( MON	= "Y", .T., .F.)
>>             ...	        tue, wed, thu, etc.
>>...
>>

>>
>>and, after edit, HOPE to save it as follows:
>>
>>

>>If sysCONFIRM(	"Save changes to Journey Stages Table?", ;
>>		"Confirm Save Changes")
>>    Select JNYSTAGE
>>    Locate
>>    If not RLOCK()
>>	= sysWARNINGMESSAGE( "Sorry.  Unable to update the Journey Stages Table." + CHR(13) + ;
>>			   "Another User has the table open for edit.", ;
>>			   "Cannot Update Journey Stages")
>>    Else
>>	With this.Parent
>>           With .grdJnyStage
>>	    Replace JOURNEY with IIF( .Column1.chkCheck1.Value,	 "Y", "N")
>>	    Replace STAGE   with IIF( .Column4.chkCheck1.Value,	 "Y", "N")
>>	    Replace MON     with IIF( .Column7.chkCheck1.Value,	 "Y", "N")
>>             ...	        tue, wed, thu, etc.
>>             .Refresh()
>>	  EndWith
>>	  = TABLEUPDATE( .T.)
>>	  UNLOCK
>>    EndIf
>>EndIf
>>

>>
>>Trouble is: All recs in the grid get saved in the same permutation of checks as the 1st record and don't necessarily follow the underllying data. I've tried putting the Replaces in a scan-endscan, but what happened then was the children of the parent rec 3 got copied to those of parent rec 5, and removed from those of parent rec 3, and then only the top rec (out of 2 in this case).
>>
>>Now then, to predict the obvious questions:
>>
>>Each "checkbox" column has no .ControlSource (that just gives a data type m-m error anyway) and is not .Bound
>>
>>I'm probably missing something simple here (I'm not sure I've ever had to do this) - What can it be?
>>
>>'ppreciate it
>>
>>Terry
>
>You better bind columns, and use cursor for grid.recordsource. When cursor will get filled you may change 'datatype' for Y/N field, and you will make the opposite change on save point.

Thanks, Ed.

You mean, when saving, going through the cursor, in a scan, and doing a seek and replace on each matching dbf record?

OK but I was hoping the grid and IIF()s could handle it more succinctly.