Roy,

>I have not had an opportunity to really explore the off line processing capability of VFP yet. I don't know if you are familiar with Notes and it's replication capability which allows you to sync two copies of an occassionally connected database. A prime application for this is in sales force automation or branch office processing where real time updates are not required. The generation of a primary key for new records becomes the difficult part. Notes solves this by using something like a combo of database id + replica id + document id and is called a universal ID.
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>The laptop users connect, transmit new docs/changes to existing docs, and pick up new docs/changes from the server. Unfortunately, Notes is not a relational database which makes it difficult to do some types of applications.
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>Just wondering if you had any MM ideas or goals concerning the offline view features...

I haven't actually put many brain cells into this particular feature yet. However, have you seen the September '97 FoxPro Advisor Article by Mac Rubel on the subject?

Regards,