It is a known bug (VFP 5.0) that when a table has 2 other tables joined to it, the view designer generates an error ...

This is the workaround I use to resolve this bug :

instead of defining the 2nd join as a normal join, I define it in the filter (so it appears in the where clause if the SQL command, instead of in the JOIN clause). I know one of the limitations of using this method is, that this implicits an INNER join (OUTER not possible )

Accept for this limitation, do I have to consider other issues about this method ? (performance, etc ...)

As far as I could find out, stonefield nor eview (sorry eric :-) have an answer to this problem ...