I did not test it as a view definition, only as a query. I was surprised that it was working in VFP, but aparently as view it does not allow this syntax?

>I tried various combinations today in one of our views, and could not get it to work.
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>Are you able to get it to work? If so, what is the syntax you used?
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>Did not work:
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* Syntax:
>SELECT a.* ;
>    ;
>    FROM  ;
>        (SELECT RECNO() as nRecno, * FROM addr) a ;
>    ;
>    WHERE  a.iaddrid = ( ?vp_iaddrid )
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>* Syntax:
>SELECT a.* ;
>    ;
>    FROM ;
>        (SELECT RECNO() as nRecno, * ;
>             FROM addr ;
>             WHERE  addr.iaddrid = ( ?vp_iaddrid ) ;
>        ) a
>

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>I get "Not a character expression" on each attempt, and it asks me if I want to rebuild the view from the designer.
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>>>When I've needed RECNO() values, I've selected from the original table with something like:
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SELECT RECNO() as nRecno, * FROM table INTO CURSOR c_table

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>>>And then used that as the source for my subsequent query. Doesn't work well in views though, but can be a good workaround if it's manual code.
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>>I wonder if something like this would be working for a view. I have not used views in a long time but could be interesting.
>>
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>SELECT Test.Inv_Recno, Inv.Invnum, Par.Parnum 
>    FROM (SELECT RECNO() AS Inv_Recno, Invnum, Parnum 
>        FROM Inv 
>        WHERE Parnum== "000001") Test 
>    JOIN Par ON Test.Parnum == Par.Parnum 
>    JOIN Inv ON Inv.Invnum == Test.Invnum AND Inv.Parnum == Test.Parnum 
>    INTO CURSOR cuResult 
>