>Hello Bret,
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>I was thinking to use local views in my forms.
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>The .exe and the database is stored in a server (f:\apps\incentive).
>Remote branches are accesing the .exe and database. Currently my forms are using tables and filters( set filter to ). I went to a branch to test the application and it was taking about 10 minutes to display a form and 6 minutes to display reports that uses a local view agains a table ( sales.dbf).
>The branch has a bellsouth connection of 256K.
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>This is really slow.!!!!
>Any suggestion to speed up the application????. Should I use a different installation. Mayby install the .exe at the branch server location......any advice!!!
>
>Thanks,
>Sergio

Is the filters you are setting on tables that have indexes on the fields you are filtering on?