>Someone mentioned earlier taht chapter 8 or 9 in the Developer's Guide was a good place to get a good handle on views. Well, I don't know what happened to our book but it's not here at the office. Any other suggestions on where to go? Thanks.

You can start from view designer, it's very good tool for creating simple views. Also, look at DBSETPROP(),CURSORSETPROP() functions in Help.