>Given an optimistic table buffered cursor against an updateable view:
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>Suppose the cursor has already been queried , and changes made by the user.
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>There is an existing record in the base table, that was not included in the query and thus is not in the cursor against the view.
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>Is there a way to add this existing record to the cursor without requerying the view?
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>My guess is no -- but there are people on this thread who do amazing things.

You could try:

select * from basetable where _filter_criteria_used_in_current_view ;
  and Basetable.KeyID not in (select keyid from CurrentView) ;
  into cursor crsTemp nofilter
select CurrentView
append from dbf("crsTemp")