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>>It must be done programatically. It can be done with DBSETPROP() unlike a table field's default.
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>Larry and Trey,
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>I owe both of you an apolgy for not reading far enough down in the "Creating Views" section of the manual, and a christmas card for all your help (I'll refrain from sending a fruit cake).
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>Yes, it appears that you can put default value rules on a view visually. That is what the little "properties" button in the field tab of the view designer is for.
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>Thanks again, ken

Looks like I owe you an apology :)

I haven't used the view designer since 3.0, so I forget what it has.