>Hmmmm. Well Kent I am not sure. The CURVAL function is *supposed* to read the record from the original table (not the locally buffered data) directly. That is the intent of it for multi user networks. I am wondering if it could be something else - and here I amm getting into stuff I don't know too well - such as needing to use a FLUSH command. Maybe the data isn't being put into the original table as fast as you think it is. Just guessing of course. Other than that I can't think of anything. HTH
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>>In the following enviroment curval over a network will not return the correct value.
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>>Use native tables.
>>Buffer Mode optimistic.
>>Private data session.
>>Set Refresh to 300,300
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>>By turning down the refresh to 10,1 you narrow the window of a error to one second. With local views and Refresh() you can get the correct data,
>>but with native tables and no function for refreshing the tables
>>you do not get the correct value.
>>Thanks.

Thanks for your help Bruce. I guess that Native Tables should not be used in a multi-user environment. I will have to convert a bunch of screens to views.