>>I put 3 tables into the view designer, all related via the Order_ID field.
>>Selected some output fields, and set my conditions: Order not closed;
>>OrderItem not closed; Supplier 400. I ran the view with no problem. I saved the view with no problem.
>>
>>So why, when I try to close the View Designer does it complain that
>>"SQL: Column 'Order_ID' is not found" ????
>>
>>Below is the code the VD generated...
>>
>>SELECT Orders.order_id, Orders.last_name, Orders.first_name,;
>> Orders.mid_name, Orders.suffix, Orders.dob, Orders.ssn, Orders.race,;
>> Orders.gender, Orderitems.report_id, Orderitems.city, Orderitems.state,;
>> Orderitems.county, Orderitems.country, Location.type, Location.name,;
>> Location.address1, Location.address2, Location.city, Location.state,;
>> Location.zip, Location.county, Location.country;
>> FROM ofax!orders INNER JOIN ofax!orderitems;
>> INNER JOIN ofax!location ;
>> ON Orders.order_id = Location.order_id ;
>> ON Orders.order_id = Orderitems.order_id;
>> WHERE EMPTY(Orders.close_date) = .T.;
>> AND Orderitems.sup_id = 400;
>> AND EMPTY(Orderitems.closed) = .T.
>
>Richard, actually it is a bug in the View Designer, which doesn't like parallel joins fron one table to two others. But you can create your view programmatically like:
>
>CREATE SQL VIEW myView AS ;
>here goes your above SQL
>
>Don't open this view in the View Designer after that!
>
>HTH,
>
>Nick
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Nick,
You said it is a bug in the VD, which doesn't like parallel joins fron one table to two others.
What if I changed the FROM to be:

SELECT MyFields;
FROM ofax!orders INNER JOIN ofax!orderitems;
INNER JOIN ofax!location ;
ON Orderitems.order_id = Location.order_id ;
ON Orders.order_id = Orderitems.order_id;
WHERE EMPTY(Orders.close_date) = .T.;
AND Orderitems.sup_id = 400;
AND EMPTY(Orderitems.closed) = .T.

This way the tables would be in series insead of in parallel.
Would this normally have any side-effect that I should watch for?

Rick