Hi Doru,
I set the filter and the textbox's value the way you said on your mail and .... everything works really well now :)
Thank you so much for your help, Doru!

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>You can preset the parameters before opening or requerying the view - so you can use controls on a form having the proper formating and validation to set the view parameters.
>For example, if you have ?ldDate in your view, all you need is ldDate=thisform.txtDate.value before requery() - where txtDate is a text box on the form.
>If your view is automatically open in DE, you can avoid the dialog by setting NoDataOnLoad=.T., or by assigning default values for the view parameters in BeforeOpentables.