Thanks, Rex. I'll give it a shot. I've found another workaround, which is to open the offending views in the SDT datasession prior to running the validation. Doug replied to one of my posts saying that should work, too. But it's good to have your solution in my pocket - I'll try them both and see which one is more convenient over time.

>David,
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>I think what I ended up doing was creating dummy views with a "v_" prefix instead of "lv_". This allowed SDT to find the "v_" parent view and open the child views.
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>HTH
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>Rex
>
>>Rex,
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>>I have the exact same problem. Did you ever get this resolved?
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>>>Doug,
>>>
>>>I use the MereMortals framework with SDT. As yopu may know, in MMF all views are opened with aliases to allow either local or remote views to be accessed transparently. I have several complex views based on each other via these aliases. When I attempt to access them in SDT, the program cannot find the source views. I need something like a pre-open hook to allow me to tell SDT to open the source views first. Do you have anything like this planned? Any ideas of a workaround?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Rex