Peter, that checkbox is the key to the whole updated business. To quote from the Help:

Specifies whether changes to the records in the view are actually sent to the original tables.

Barbara


>I checked all these to no avail. Then I started looking at the view again, I did not have the checkbox
>marked in the UPDATE tab of the view for SEND SQL UPDATES. Not sure what this REALLY does but
>through trial and error testing (see I do test!!!) it works now.
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>Thanks
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