>I have a table that has a candidate key on Name. The Name is made >app. The client has complained about the error message that comes up I had the same problem last week, with the only work around I found being to change the index to regular, and putting some checking code in valid for the field. If the code returns a .F., the user gets a wait window and the cmdSave is not enabled. I bet your using buffering, as I am. BUT there was some feed back that some top end fox people DO NOT use buffering.