Doug,

That's what I thought.

Let me know what I need to do.

Thanks

Rex

>Hi Rex.
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>>What does this have to do with opening views with aliases? I don't have multiple DBCs and separate DBFs and views.
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>Doh! I had several messages on a similar topic (pre and post hooks) in the past few days and mixed yours up with the others. Sorry about that.
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>>My problem is that I use views with aliases as base tables for other views and SDT does not recognize the aliases.
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>I think the way I'll resolve this is to call out to a PRG you can create when validation occurs.
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>Doug