Paige:

I have tried in vain to get this to work with local and remote views. The problem is with the parameter being a character string. VFP won't remove the delimiters [i.e., the extra set of quotes] from around the string passed. This is why it works if you let VFP prompt you for the parameter list -- no extra set of quotes. If you have just 1 value in the string it works. When you have to pass more than 1, the extra set of quotes and the comma screw it up.

Now if you create the SQL programmatically to create a cursor, you can do it, but what a pain in the posterior that is if you really need an updatable view.

An example I gave was:

where State in ?cStateList

or

where State in (?cStateList)

or

where State in ( ?cStateList )

None of which worked for me. If I initialize the value of cStateList, I get no records returned if I initialize it to more than 1 State. If I let VFP prompt me for the value, it works. I have initialized the parameter a number of ways, including:

cState = "'AR','LA'"
cState = "('AR','LA')"
cState = 'AR' + "," + 'LA'
... , etc.