>The table does update, after the form closes. I think I left that out of my post, my apologies. Despite a thisform.save, the tables don't update interactively.
Can you use a view for rules also? Seems like there is a delay of actual flushing data to the network drive. You may try to use FLUSH FORCE in myRulesAlias.
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