Hi Sam take a look to the ADBOBJECTS funtion and also the DBF function with this 2 you can get all the information that you whant.

>I am trying to manage field validation on a form where the underlying DBC has field rules. I find that the rule fires before the valid method and does not seem to give any opportunity to intercept the error condition. The standard message offers a Revert option but does not refresh the control so the user
>has to re-enter the correct data.
>Related to this issue. I have tried using a local view for the datasource and calling a fieldvalidate method which uses DBGETPROP calls to fetch the ruleExpression and RuleText for the underlying fields/record. This seems to work OK but I am still trying to determine what type of datasource I have -
>Table, Localview or Remoteview. Is there a function call which returns this information for a given alias()?