>I use a view in a form and allow the user to build an index on the fly.
>Before tableupdateing the record I need to remove the index otherwise VFP complains in the updatetrigger.
>No problem I thought. just set order to 0 and delete tag all and all should be fine. WRONG.
>after that statement the index is still there
>WHAT AM I DOING WRONG??
>

You might try building a .IDX file rather than a TAG, since there's no need to alter the DBF header with a separate .IDX file.