In a question I posed yesterday, I got the idea from Rich and Erik that I was doing something most developers don't do, so I wanted to get the straight scoop.

Coming from a native VFP experience w/o views, I always assign my keys at record create as does the commercial framework I use for a lot of my projects.

I got the impression from Rich and Erik that this is not usually done this way when dealing with views, but that keys are added in when a set of views (1:M:M...) are committed. What's the motivation for this? And Rich and Erik, if you're listening, does this make my earlier problem with orphaned grandkids go away?

FWIW, I am trying to prepare my current project for easier upsizing, which is why I want to do it entirely with views.