>>>Is rv_nextkey a view? why not REQUERY() whether or not it was already open?
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>>I tried your suggestion, unfortunately it's not working either. I think the problem may be in my startup environment. For some reason, the following statement is doing nothing:
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>>USE "eis!rv_NextKey" IN 0
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>>It doesn't open the rv_NextKey table, it doesn't return any values.
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>USEing a table doesn't do anything but open it. It doesn't return a value, it doesn't set _TALLY, and it doesn't locate a record.
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>_TALLY is only set by SQL statements (or views, which use SQL behind the scenes).
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>To get a value from the table, you first have to locate your record, and then assign the value of a field to a variable.

Ok. (I'm still learing how all this works, thanks for being patient!)
In my case, rv_NextKey is a parameterized view. If I provide a parameter and issue the USE statement, it should open the table (er, I mean view), and will have 1 record in it, right? Then all I have to do is set my return value = to the current rv_NextKey.NewIDvalue.

What I meant above when I said the USE statement wasn't doing anything, was that after issuing the USE statement, if I look to see what the current ALIAS() is, it's *NOT* rv_NextKey.