>>>>>Thanks Trey
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>Hmmm doing it this way seems to work though!!!!
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>sele v_ticket
>*!* DBSetProp("v_ticket.p_ticket", "Field", "Default", "NextKey('P_TICKET')")
>insert into v_ticket (p_ticket,ticket) values (NextKey('P_TICKET'),myvalue)
>go recno()
>wait window ' v_ticket '+trans(v_ticket.p_ticket)+' ticket '+trans(ticket.p_ticket)
>return v_ticket.p_ticket
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>Thanks for the idea of populating v_ticket with the primary key before I write the record back to the underlying table.
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>I had been told in the past that this was a bad idea and I should insure nextkey only ever gets run from the one location.
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>It looks like this is one of those general rules that needs to be broken from time to time for the sake of performance.
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>I am pleased becuase it would have been very time consuming requerying the whole view just to get my primary key reflected back into the view.
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Glad you got it working and that I could help.