Exactly

If you use views or CA's and run TABLEUPDATE(), the Alias of the CA will be in scope, but the validation of the target cursor (table) will fire. Since those table knows nothing about how they is called (tableupdate, replace, update, change in browse window) it will run the rule against its own alias. IOW it will change the alias internaly.

sele bla
replace OtherTable.field with FieldFromBla

will fire the fule for "field" in "OtherTable" and while running this rule "OtherTable" will be the return of ALIAS().

Agnes



>Hi,
>
>In VFP9 help, under the topic Field and Record Validation Rules which discusses data validation rules, a Note:
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>"When a trigger is called, the Alias is always that of the cursor being updated, regardless of the Alias selected in the code that caused the trigger to fire."
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>What is the Alias in the above note?
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>Does it mean in the validation rule, if I have abc = ALIAS(), abc will be assigned the alias of the cursor which contains the field being validated (instead of active workarea alias when the validation check is triggered)?