>>I'm trying to create an updatable view. My base table has a compound primary key such as Field1 + Field2 + str(Field3,8,0) + Field4.
>>I can't quite figure out the syntax for the dbsetprop() command to set the key field.
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>You don't have a single key field, but several. Therefore, judging from the documention, you should do
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>dbsetprop(Field1, "Field", "KeyField", .T.)
>dbsetprop(Field2, "Field", "KeyField", .T.)
>dbsetprop(Field3, "Field", "KeyField", .T.)

I don't think specifying more that one key is allowed. The expression specified should be specified as the key expression in the tables definition (I believe).