David,

Do you create the p-views in a prg that runs before the form?

Does it get added to the database?

What is .fk and .pk?

>The edit p-views I usually build in the view designer. Because they are simple every field, set an order and the filter of childtable.fk = ?parenttable.pk and check the send sql updates.
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>The readonly p-views I generally do in a .prg because in most cases the child table has one or more lookups into the codes table. So I hand code those just to get good names on the tables and fields:
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Thanks