Hi Ron,

the following example code shows the necessary commands to make a view updatable.
It was generated by the VFP 9.0 viewdesigner.
You might compare the lines to yours to make sure you are not missing one or more necessary statements.

DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","SendUpdates",.T.)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","BatchUpdateCount",1)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","CompareMemo",.T.)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","FetchAsNeeded",.F.)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","FetchMemo",.T.)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","FetchSize",100)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","MaxRecords",-1)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","Prepared",.F.)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","UpdateType",1)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","UseMemoSize",255)
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","Tables","northwind!Customers")
DBSetProp(ThisView,"View","WhereType",1)

DBSetProp(ThisView+".customerid","Field","DataType","C(5)")
DBSetProp(ThisView+".customerid","Field","UpdateName","northwind!Customers.customerid")
DBSetProp(ThisView+".customerid","Field","KeyField",.T.)
DBSetProp(ThisView+".customerid","Field","Updatable",.F.)

DBSetProp(ThisView+".companyname","Field","DataType","C(40)")
DBSetProp(ThisView+".companyname","Field","UpdateName","northwind!Customers.companyname")
DBSetProp(ThisView+".companyname","Field","KeyField",.F.)
DBSetProp(ThisView+".companyname","Field","Updatable",.T.)