Thanks for the ideas guys,
I'm going to look into hacking the dbc to at least be able to generate a list of any view that's affected by my structure changes.
Erik, one starting point for the logic of determining the updatability of a new field would be an all or nothing proposition. If all the other fields are updatable and the new ones aren't, then they should be as well.
Again, thanks for your hlep!
Alex
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