Since views are created locally on the fly, they are allways opened exclusively. This doesn't prevent the use of the underlying tables or view from being opened by others, since the tables are not opened exclusively and the view will be created on each users PC.

HTH

>whenever I add a local view to the DE of a form, the Exclusive Property of the Cursor object defaults to .t., it is also readonly at design time and I have to change it in code which is pain PITA, anyone come across this?