Probably because a free table can not have a PK. To get a PK, your table has to be part of a DBC. Granted, you do have a field in the table that is unique, but I would guess EVIEW is looking for a field that is defined exactly as a PK.

>Friends:
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>I am using eView (for the first time) with a view comprising of free tables - some VFP6, some FPW2.6 tables.
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>In this view, I have specified StatLi.StatLiNo as KEY (but not updatable) and one other field as updatable (not a key field). When I attempt to save the view in eView, a dialog pops up warning me as follows :-
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>You have marked one or more fields for the table "statli" as updateable, but have not specified a key field. Do you want to save anyway?
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>As mentioned I have specified StatLi.StatLiNo (in the check box) as the KEY field in eView.
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>Any ideas what is going on here?
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>Also, when I click the Edit SQL button, I get a program error as follows :-
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>Property REGISTRYAPP is not found. (Ignore)
>Property REGISTRYAPP is not found. (Ignore)
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>then, the View Text box appears containing a SQL string.
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>Again, any ideas what might be happening here, too?
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>Many thanks.