"How come my tables aren't getting updated when I update my view?"

A common problem and one that "bites" experienced developers and newbies alike.

When creating views, in the View Designer, it's easy to overlook identifying a Key field and/or checking-off the Send Updates checkbox. In views created in code, not setting the SendUpdates property of the view to .T. via DBSETPROP() or not identifying the key field with the KeyField set to .T. for the primary key of the underlying table is common.

In both circumstances, the base table will not be updated. If SendUpdates is not set True (.T.), VFP just won't try to update the base table. 'Nuff said. If a KeyField is not identified, and it has to be a unique key field (a primary key), VFP doesn't know where to send the updates.

Always check these settings via running GENDBC or DBGETPROP after you haev created a new view. It'll save you some headaches.