>The framework prefetches the value for the primary key of the view by evaluating, from the DBC, the default value expression of the PK of the underlying updateable table.
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>Out of the box, it seems that other default values are not prefetched. This requires putting default value generation elsewhere and having to maintain consistency between code in that location and in the DBC.
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>Is this accurate? Has anyone worked on a mechanism to retrieve other default values? It seems this is a non-trivial, but feasible project, given the assumption that only 1 table in the view is updateable.

My eView utility automates propogation of table properties to view properties. YOu can download it here in the files section.