Thanks, Victor, I think that will work.

>I've had the same problem before myself. What I did was modify the view to un-buffered - create the index - then changed the view back to buffering mode. I have no idea how risky or stupid it is, but it seems to be stable - it works.
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>>I'm writing an application where the user can click on grid headers to sort views. This works fine on un-buffered views, but I get an error message (1579 command connot be issued on a table with cursors in table buffering mode) when I index a buffered view. Any ideas?
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>>Thanks,