That's exactly it. I disabled auto-requery, now the new child record gets created and kept.

Thanks.

>Is the child bizobj also requerying when the parent requeries? If so, the requery will "blow it away."
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>>I'm trying to auto-create a new child record when I create a new parent record. I have the appropriate property checked in the child business object ("New child on new parent"), and the name of the parent business object in the parent field.
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>>This fails consistently. In tracing thru, I found that the child object does get created in the view, but then gets destroyed on a requery. The command "TABLEREVERT(.T.)" blows it away.
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>>Anyone here successful at this task?
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>>TIA.