>>Well, I seem to have painted myself into a corner with this one. I have coded an application with 1 to Many parent/child relations going six deep. Each relationship is using internally generated key fields.
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>>Now, my client (internal) is asking for the capability to copy a relation tree from the top down to a new record - with it's own copy of all the children, grandkids, great grandkids, etc.
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Do your key structures look something like..
PARENT1
PARENT1.CHILD1
PARENT1.CHILD1.CHILD2
PARENT1.CHILD1.CHILD2.CHILD3
PARENT1.CHILD1.CHILD2.CHILD3.CHILD4
...etc?

copy all for left(MyKey,7)="PARENT1"
..
set exact off
seek [PARENT1] && Will locate all children for this parent in all tables
..
set exact off
do while seek([PARENT1.CHILD1])
replace CHILD1 with newCHILD1
enddo
..
Whty do you need to re-configure the keys?

Some times you can put all the children in with the parent in one table!
ALLCHILDREN.dbf
fields
PARENT CHILD1 CHILD2 CHILD3
000001 000000 000000 000000 && Parent record all children are zero
000001 000001 000000 000000 && First Child 1 record, child 2 and 3 zero'
000001 000001 000001 000000 && Firsr Child 2 record
000001 000002 000000 000000 && Parent one second child 1,
... and so on