>I am looking for a best-prctice approach to mamy to many table scenarios:
>I have a parent table, an intersection table and a child table
>in a form I show the parent info and in a grid the child info and maybe one or two field from the link table
>I imagine a cursor adapter containing link data and child data would be the BEST way to populate the grid from
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>now the big question: can I insert a record into the cursor adaptor cursor and have the adaptor automatically add a record into the link table AND the child table \and how must this CA be set up??
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>Thanks
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>Peter

I would suspect that the situation is similar than, say, local or remote views. Now, it is fairly problematic to update more than one table with the same view, and I have seen recommendations - and follow them myself - to update only one "main" table per view, and include other fields only as a reference.