Andrew,

>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)

Ahhh...yes...I seem to want to do this in VFP's wonderful View Designer ;-). Guess I'll give up that idea (using the VD)...thanks.

J



>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