I've also had similar "cannot insert an empty..." problems with a view that was marked updateable and PK was set. It drove me crazy for few days and I couldn't figure out why it would not work. Strangely though, it started working after few days but I couldn't figure out what I did differently (if anything). I think there's something screwy with VFP6 handling of certain views in certain conditions.

Try deleting the view and recreating it from scratch and even renaming it when you do.

>Hi Jack,
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>I had a similar problem with a view of two tables but I only wanted to update one of them. I was getting the error message "cannot insert an empty row from a view into its base table". Are you getting this message?
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>Paul
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>>Hi Edward, Thank you.
>>Yes, I mean that I've checked the 'Send SQL updates'(I use Chinese version VFP 5) checkbox. and the view is a local view, It join two tables but I just want to update only one of them.
>>Thanks again.