>>OIC.....
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>>Interesting....what was throwing me off was the fact that view cursors are exclusive...hmmm...so if you CURSORSETPROP("Buffering",3) there's no problem (isn't that the default when a view is opened?), but with 5, problem. And EXCL doesn't enter into at all.
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>It's the default unless your form class' default buffermode is 5.

FWIW, if you issue cursorsetprop('buffering', 5, 0), every cursor opened after that will be [optimistic] table buffered.