Hi Barry.

>how may i go about batch adding fields to my field repository:
>..\StonefieldDatabaseToolkit\SDT\FIELDREP\SDTMETA.DBF and
>..\StonefieldDatabaseToolkit\SDT\FIELDREP\coremeta.DBF
>
>looks like it is a 1 to 1 relationship?

Yes. SDTMeta is like an extension of CoreMeta, providing additional attributes that SDT needs.

>Is coremata the parent or the child?

You can think of it as the parent.

>i have a passive dictionary form which i can extract the distinct field elements.
>I'd like to insert the result of that extraction into the repository.
>Is this a fools errand or doable?

Sounds doable to me.

Doug