Charlie
>>you've got to close the tables in the DE, drop View from DBC, rebuild it then add it back<<
No. This was the case with VFP3 but as of VFP5 you can create a new view any time you like- no need to drop it first or close all the tables.
Changing a view in code is easy, easy, easy.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1