Good to hear from you. I don't know if you remember me but you suggested that I might want to use views to address the problem I was having. At the time I wasn't able to do so because of time. However, since then I have started using views which I love. The current application really does require them. My only concern is as follows: In my form which consists of several pageframes I have a grid based on a temporary cursor which has a field called l_save. After the user has entered info and gone to the last field in the grid and press enter I mark that field as true. At that time they then get a new record in the grid. They then can't not change any of the data in any of the previously entered records. I have a method which then sits the readonly property to true in any of the previously entered records. Once they have entered the information I then place that information in the table directly thru append blank to the table. However later in the form I use views to gather information from various tables. However I have noticed that when I go to tableupdate the view the stored procedure doesn't fire unless I remove the buffering. Is this likely to cause me any problems. I immediately restore the buffering after saving. It just occurred to me that instead of using the table directly I could use a view requery with a value I know doesn't exist and then append a new record replacing the data from the cursor and then issue tableupdate. However it is probably to late in the game for that approach. Thanks for any ideas you might have.