>>>I'm using local views without nulls, and blank dates are valid within the application. I'm considering going to remote views, but lack of an empty date, nulls and/or the automatic date entry are warping my little brain. Is there a fast and easy way to convert to blank VFP dates when using the view, and saving to the backend as null or whatever?
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Lparameters tuValue
>>If Empty(m.tuValue) OR (Vartype(m.tuValue) = 'C' And Trim(m.tuValue) == '{}')
>>	Return .Null.
>>Else
>>	Return m.tuValue
>>Endif

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>>I suggest totally forgetting about "empty" date/times and use nulls instead.
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>Cursoradaptors are out for the moment, I'm on VFP 8.1 and Mere Mortals. I'd like to forget empty datetimes *if* I can get things to behave.

I don't know MM but VFP8 support cursoradapters.
Cetin