Hi Jill,

off the top of my head, you could have an additional test so your where clause could be:

WHERE lCompleted = ?thisform.lCompleted or (.t. = ?thisform.lShowBoth)

Cheers,

Andrew

>Hi all,
>
>I have a number of tables that has information about applications (people applying to receive benefits from a program).
>
>I will be using a view (or mulitple views) to display the data in a grid. I want to give my users the options of displaying:
> - all applications
> - completed applications
> - incomplete applications
>
>What is the best way to handle this? once the size of the data gets large, Filter's are not efficient, right? I could have 3 different views and change the RecordSource for each.
>
>I've thought about somehow having a view parameter that will collect the entries required, but don't quite know how to handle this. If the main table has a field, lCompleted, obviously, I can query for all completed applications or all uncompleted applications, w/something like:
>
>... WHERE lCompleted = ?Thisform.lShowCompleted
>
>But how to expand that to query for all applications? this might be totally obvious, but I can't see it.
>
>Thanks for any input. J