>I changed the ControlSource ov all the fields on a form from fields in free tables to fields in a View. The free tables must remain available to other systems like SBT Pro5. So I put the View by itself in DBC. I had it working, shut it down re-built the .exe and it didn't work. Bent back in and the view is blank. I have to shut down the whole office to get these free tables exclusive. Anybody know a "work around"??

I've done some work with SBT 5.0 and views, so maybe I can help out. What do you mean "view is blank"? Has the view definition been destroyed, or when you use the view, no records are returned? One thing to remember with views of free tables: If you use transactions, the free tables don't participate.