Hi Jim,

Thank you for your help.

I've simplified my problem by removing the view entirely. Now I'm doing everything directly with the table that resides in bfnvfp. However, I tried what you suggested and I still get the error "cannot update the cursor". I'm sure it's my approach. Here's what I do.

close all
clear all
open data bfnvfp shared
use ccoffer shared
=cursorsetprop("buffering",5)
browse && change any field other than lastupdate
? tableupdate(.t.,.t.)

The table ccoffer has an update trigger called DateInitials( "CCOffer" ). The DateInitials is in the SP of the bfnvfp DBC. The code is:

*
* AUTHOR: Benjamin P. Burnham
* CREATED: Aug 16, 1999
* PURPOSE: save the datetime and userid to the specified table
*
PROCEDURE DateInitials
LPARAMETERS m.tcTable

wait window m.tcTable && confirm that this code actually runs

REPLACE LastUpdate WITH DATETIME() IN m.tcTable

RETURN

Maybe by issuing the REPLACE command during a TABLEUPDATE causes the table to get confused but I'd think there would be need for such a simple operation. It's important that the LastUpdate field only get changed when the TABLEUPDATE command is fired.