>I am placing the information on a tab on my screen in a grid. The view is part of my database container & is a child to a master file. I have various TABS for different subtable information related to the master record. Is this an appropriate way to do this? (I have already many TABS and screens, but would like to summarize this table/View before I present it on the screen.)

It's normal, the only thing that view is redundant a little bit here, because you're not going to update the underlying table(s) from summarized view.