>Sorry I must be appearing very thick let me give an example.

No, not at all. See some of my not-so-distant posts here if you want to see thick!

>user 1 adds to the field Title - "The Flintstones"
>user 2 adds to the field Forename - "Fred"
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>They can both save their changes at the same time using optimistic buffering and both sets of changes get logged. However
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>user 1 is seeing nothing against Forename
>user 2 is seeing nothing against Title
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>as the view only seems to write changes not read any changes made to the base table.
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>Is this right?

Yes. Not until the data is requeried from the base table into their view. A view is simply a cursor that exists in memory on each users PC. The only way it can show changes to the base table is if a Requery (or the equivalent) on the view is done which essentially repopulates the view.

Renoir