Hi Mandy ---
Go into View Designer and designate one of the fields (a unique one) as the key in the fields list in the Update Criteria tab....
>Hi all,
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>I was trying to close my open tables, including a view and base table and am getting the following error message all of the sudden:
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>"No key columns are specified for the update table "ird!person". Use the keyfieldlist property of the cursor"
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>The help key is no help and I can't close my tables, views or even VFP (v5.0). I'm stuck. Anyone know what this means or how to correct it?
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>What a day! ;)
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>MTIA!
>Mandy
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