>>>Hi everyone,
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>>>I created a view, which is based on two tables. One table from Stats database (this is the one which is relevant for this application) and another table from JobControl database, which I used only for display purposes (I want to show customer name from customer table). My colleague suggested to use just tables instead. Well, I still want to use p-view, but I'm thinking, may be instead of adding customer table into my view, I can put seek(oJC.CustID, JobControl!Customer, CustID) into the controlSource for this textbox on the form (it's for display purpose only). What would you suggest?
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>>>The form only uses one record from Stats!CustomerInfo for the customerID=oJC.CustID
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>>In principle the idea should work fine. Some frameworks work that way by default (often what they call "lookups").
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>>If the ControlSource won't accept the SEEK() or you have problems, define a custom function or method and use that instead.
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>>The main issue will be coordinating its refreshes with the rest of the form but that shouldn't be hard to do.
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>Thanks, Al. So, basically you suggest to proceed with the idea I described, right?

Yep.

>Is view based on tables from separate DBCs is a bad idea in general?

I don't know - I've never done it.