>Is there any problem creating a view with a field being added like:
>0000.0 AS Meter
>
>Every time I tried before in a view it would reset the field to 0.0 with a column of value1 or something like that. Anyway I would loose the meter as the field name and the 5,1 as the format.

John,

I haven't encountered a need to add a field like that to a view, but you can do it with SELECT.