>Hi Nick,
>File maintainence is adding, changing and/or deleting records in t table.

I would rather call it data maintenance. I thought you were referring to things like reindexing, packing and such.

>I don't use views because I don't use DBC's. I understand there is a way to build a temporary DBC and then build views, but I haven't tried to do it.
>However I don't see how using a parameterized view with buffering is going to make grids better behaved when you add, change, or delete records in a child table.
>Bill

To me it is easier than to link parent and child grids, use SET RELATION, etc. I don't see a problem with adding, editing and deleting records in a view or cursor which is a grid recordsource. You manipulate the cursor records and just refresh the grid.