>>I'm not sure if I understand your problem, but I use views in forms' DEs all the time without adding the underlying tables, or opening them in the default session.
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>That will not be necessary if you have all the tables in the DBC. In my case, only the view is in the DBC and the tables are free tables.

What happens if you put the view in the DE with NoDataOnLoad = .T. and then requery in the form init? Does the order matter then?

- Mark