>I use the codebook framework (actually Mere Mortals) so all of my views, etc are opened from within a subclassed data environment and cursor class. So in my subclass of the dataenvironment that opens the cursor I added this function to override the default
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>FUNCTION OPENTABLES
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>v_objcompkey = 0 && keys will always be 1 or greater so no data is returned
>DODEFAULT()
>ENDFUNC
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>Of course opening the view from the project manager or the command window will always prompt for the variable name, but now within my program.

Thanks Bob for the trick. I knew you were using Codebook, that's why I asked!

José