>When creating a view in the view designer, what do I do if I want to use a parameter, but not have the user be prompted for it? In other words, if I already have a variable with contains the value I want to use, how do I represent this in the view designer? (Instead of ?Name, which would prompt the user to enter a name, I want it to just use the variable value at runtime.)
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>Thanks,

Hi Patric,

You don't need to do anything with the view. All you need to make sure that the variable which is your view parameter (?lcName) exists, has the desired value, and is in scope of the method/procedure where you open or requery your view. If the view parameter variable exists, the prompt will not appear.

An example:

The view SQL:

SELECT Delivery.orderno, Delivery.lname, Delivery.fname;
 FROM appdata!delivery;
 WHERE Delivery.fname = ?lcname

The code:

lcName = "John"
use view1 in 0
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