>How to make local view keep updated when change is making on another user?

refresh(). You will have to do this at regular intervals.

Note: If you use optimistic buffering, VFP will check whether the record you are trying to save has been modified by another user in the meantime. TableUpdate() will fail, in this case, with the default parameters (that is, VFP will not want to update it).

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>Beside view, any alternative way to select subset of data, and update the data back to table?
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>TIA.

I think views are the easiest way. Any workaround would be more complicated. With views, VFP does lots of work for you, which you would have to do yourself, otherwise:

Copy the data to a temp table.

Keep track of which records have been modified.

Copy those records, in a loop, back to the original tables.

This includes searching the original records one by one, in the underlying tables.

Keep, in a buffer, the values of the records, before you started editing.

And some more, too, I suppose.

Hilmar.

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