>>In all of my adventures with VFP views (tool construction etc.) , I have never seen this work. Luckily, I have never had a need for it.
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>Hi Erik!
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>Yes, It does work but you have to register the parameters. To do this we have to open the View Designer then select the "Query" Menu and then select the "View Parameters..." option and then insert the required parameters.

I don't use the view designer. I didn't realize that the parameters showed up with DBGETPROP if you specified them this way. But IMHO, this should be automatic. Since there is only one way to specify a parameter in a view (with the "?") then VFP should be able to fill in this property for you.

I knew that the parameterlist property would return your parameters if you explicitly set them with DBSETPROP(), but what's the point? what good does the property do me if I have to set it myself? I am not aware of any way that VFP uses the property internally- I have gotten along all this time just fine without it.


Thanks for the pointer though regarding the view designer. Now that I know other people use this property for something, perhaps I will revise eView to parse the view's SQL and fill in the parameterlist automatically.