Dane,
>is there a way here to define the path for those tables, before the views get created or even at the startup of the program.>
You can set the path at any point in the application startup process that makes sense...the earliest possible point is in your application-specific main.prg...you could also do this in your application object's PreInitHook(), PostInitHook() or BeforeReadEvents() methods.
Regards,
Kevin McNeish
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