Doug,

Nope, this happens when I first get into VFP and SDT.

Any other ideas?

TIA

Rex

>Hi Rex.
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>>I get the above message after I create a view with several (3 or 4) linked tables. Am I doing something wrong or is this an extension of the View Designer limitations?
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>It's likely that the tables are open exclusively in the default data session, so VFP gives an error when SDT tries to open the view in its data session. Try do a CLOSE TABLES ALL in the Command window (the SDT Database Explorer is modeless, so you can do this), then click on the Validate button to try again.
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>Doug