Hey thanks Doug, I really appreciate your reply!

>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?
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>Yes. SDTMeta is like an extension of CoreMeta, providing additional attributes that SDT needs.
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>>Is coremata the parent or the child?
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>You can think of it as the parent.
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>>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?
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>Sounds doable to me.
>
>Doug