If you are new, you may want to consider checking out YAG's CODEBOOK framework. It does exactly what you are describing. In CODEBOOK's framework you would: Create a view with a filter condition using a view parameter that matches your criteria. Example CLAIMS.CID = ?vp_claims Next, create the 'form' and use some type of control (text, combo, etc) to capture your claim number. Assign the value of your control to a memory variable so that the requery method can see the view parameter and the resulting data set with only have the records you desire. I am not doing the codebook framework justice with the description above but I hope that you can get the idea. I want to create an edit screen where only records meeting a certain criteria is displayed; for example, a claim number equal to a number entered by the user. How do I prompt the user for the claim number? Once they enter the claim number, how do I create the dataset? I started by experimenting with a view, am I on the correct path? Thanks!