You may need to USE the table again with a new alias before being allowed to index on fields. Ir the nofilter clause might help.

>ARGH!! I'm having troubles here, I've got a search form, which has fields at the top to search on...the grid shows the results, which now I've got it set to RECORDSOURCETYPE=1-ALIAS, and all is well as far as showing the results, but I want to allow my users to click on a header and sort by that column...preferably without requerying the SELECT statement with the ORDER BY. But when I try to
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INDEX field TAG field
>INDEX field TAG field additive

>VFP gives me an error that a .tmp file is read-only...
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>Is there a way to have more than one index on a cursor?
>Is there a better way I should be doing this???
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>HEEEELP MEEE!!!! [:o