Hi Erik.

>> One of the first things you'll learn when working with VFP views is that the designer is dysfunctional- it doesn't handle views with more than two joins. <<

This is not really accurate. It handle straight parent->child->grandchild relationships with no problem at all. The only time it fails (because of that nasty nested syntax it uses < g >) is when you are trying to join more than two unrelated siblings.

Marcia