Doug,

Yes, I am trying to open the SDT Database Explorer which does what I am assuming is an automatic validation of all database objects. This process gives either an unable to validate or in some cases an sdt error to which I have to press the Continue button. If I had either a method or a property array and some code in SDT to open the views I say, the validation should (could/might) go through.

Clear as mud???

Thanks

Rex

>Hi Rex.
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>>I use the MereMortals framework with SDT. As yopu may know, in MMF all views are opened with aliases to allow either local or remote views to be accessed transparently. I have several complex views based on each other via these aliases. When I attempt to access them in SDT, the program cannot find the source views. I need something like a pre-open hook to allow me to tell SDT to open the source views first. Do you have anything like this planned? Any ideas of a workaround?
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>Just so I can understand what you're doing: when you say "access them in SDT", do you mean in the SDT Database Explorer? If so, what are you doing there?
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>Doug