>Having become dependent on the view designer and the DE to hold them I now face a problem. I have found that
>the view designer cannot handle anything even remotely complex. I will have to program the views
>by hand. No big deal. But where is the best place to set them up assuming I will use them thoughout many
>forms? In the init of the main form?
You could do it there but you will have problems binding them to grids, for example. Better to do it in either the form.load() or the DE BeforeOpenTables().
Dan LeClair
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