Great! When doing views programmatically it's easy to miss a step.

Barbara

>Barbara,
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>I got the view to work. I neglected to issue the dbsetprop() call for updatename. I found that if I referenced the field I want to update with an explicite reference (i.e., DBC!table.field) using the updatename property life is good.
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>Thanks for your help!
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>Eric)