>>Mark gave you the code for a regular view. A parameterized view simply adds one more clause in the WHERE section which can be updated programmatically
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>>   Create SQL View as Select field list from table1, table2 where ;
>>      table1.keyfield = table2.keyfield;
>> >>>     AND table2.SortField = ?MyVar;    <<<<
>>      and .... order by ... ;
>>        into cursor CursorName
>>>

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>>Then be sure you have MyVar programmatically assigned the child value you want to see. You can re-assign MyVar and requery the view whenever Child1/Child2 change.
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>Thanks I guess I'll try this. Maybe you could answer a question
>for me then. In all seriousness. Isn't it easieer to use the
>original way of having a 1 to many relationship set? Assuming
>it worked of course. Why should one have to do all of this in
>order for a simple relationship to work. Would you consider this
>a bug in VFP?
>
>thanks again
>Gary

It's not really a bug. If you setup a browse of 2 tables with set skip on, you get the same results. The grid is just a fancy way of browsing the tables.