>I have a grid on a form thats based on a local view which works well. The user wants to be able use the same grid to get a view based on different parameters which would require a different kind of querry of the same underlyng data. Basically it is the exact same query with a different join type.
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>My thought was to create a second local view and change the data source property of the grid to the second view but when i switch to it the grid goes blank and when i toggle back to the first view the data in the grid is scrambled. Both views work when tried by hand against the data.
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>Is my whole approach wrong? Is there a way to programatticlay change the sql of the view to specify a different join?
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>TIA
>Chris

You still can switch Grid.Recordsource and doing this carefully you will not lose grid data: you should reset not only grid.recordsource but also all column.controlsources
With Thisform.Grid1
.Recordsource=""
.Recordsource="view2"
.Column1.Controlsource="view2.field1"
.Column2.Controlsource="view2.field2"
....
.Refresh
Endwith