Maybe I'm missing something. Why not create another parm view and pass it the invoice number?

Jeff

>Hi Everyone!
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>How can I search (preferably a SEEK()) through a local view, without having to index it at run-time?
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>I use a local view to update a base invoice file. I do this because I use the primary incremantel index key as the actual generated invoice number. I only require this invoice number (primary key) to get incremented if and only if the user decides to save the invoice (TABLEUPDATE()).
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>It works great, but when trying to find an invoice, to perform and edit, view, void, etc., I would like search through the local view using a seek, since I am using a local view all the time.
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>This is a multi-user application, so I do not want to creat index files evry time a user enters the invoice file, just to perform a seek.
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>Is there a solution to this? If not, can I use another search method on a local view, which is fairly fast and efficient?
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>Thanks in advance!