Glad you got it worked out. I kept getting that error because the look up table name (which wasn't updateable) was in the TableList of the view. Once I took it out everything worked fine.

>Roi
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>I have managed to sort the problem, by taking the join out.
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>I haven't fully checked this yet, but I think it's right. The join was to one other table, and in the SELECT I was filtering it to only pick up certain records from the 2nd table.
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>The 2nd table is only a lookup table (code,desc), and if the user doesn't pick an option from the lookup table, the SELECT won't pick it up, because it is filtering the whole view, when I only wanted it to filter on the 2nd table.
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>Here is the original code;
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>SELECT careplan.*,ccmslook.lk_desc;
> FROM database!careplan LEFT OUTER JOIN database!ccmslook;
> ON careplan.lk_code = ccmslook.lk_code;
> WHERE ccmslook.lk_type = "AB"
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>Here is what I think it should have been;
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>SELECT careplan.*,ccmslook.lk_desc;
> FROM database!careplan LEFT OUTER JOIN database!ccmslook;
> ON careplan.lk_code = ccmslook.lk_code;
> WHERE (ccmslook.lk_type = "AB" OR EMPTY(careplan.lk_code))
>
>The latter code works fine.
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>So there it is.
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>Thanks for your help, Kev.