Bob,

I don't see why you need date part for FK and a view can be sorted with ORDER BY or creating additional indexes on the view.
If , for whatever reason, you need index on both fields, than

CREATE INDEX ACTSTAFFAC ON CONTACTS (ACTSTAFF , ACTDATE) 

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>Well my thought ws to use foreign keys to maintain Parent/Child table relationships, similar to the .dbc, and then use remote views. But alas, still absorbing the concepts.
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