It may be the 'buffermode'....(???) or something like that...seems like I've run across something similar myself, but it was more than a year ago....

>>-> Are you suggesting temporarily adding the above index to a table?
>>Yep...That's what those extra methods listed below in the framework of that grid are for.
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>That's a possibility. I seem to remember having a problem setting up the index against the table. I had no problem at all setting up the index against the view.