>>I created a view based on 4 tables: Crseinfo (Course Information), Crsedtl (People enrolled in course), People (Person Info), and Trainer (Trainer/Teacher Info).
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>>There are JOIN's between Crseinfo and Crsedtl on a modulecode and levelcode, Crsedtl and People on a personcode and Crsedtl and Trainer on a trainercode.
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>>The view runs great and saved fine but now when I try and modify it I get the error:
>>SQL: Column 'TRAINERCODE' is not found.
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>>Trainercode is not a selected field for the view and is only specified in the JOIN. The only info in the view from the Trainer table is a concatenated field of fname+" "+lname. Why is this happening?
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>>Also, even though I can't edit it the view still runs fine.
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>VFP View Designer cannot handle complicated views. The workaround is to create/handle view programmatically.

Is this another one of M$'s 'undocumented features' :-) Thanks for the info Ed.