Hi Ken

I have more information since I posted my previous message to you. I believe I understand the situation now, and I don't think I require any additional help.

However, in case you are interested, or in case you feel you can add something additional that would be helpful, Here is what I have since discovered:



1) The only reason I didn't get the dialog box described below, when opening the view, was because I had a set path statement in effect for the path to where the free table was. Without the path statement, 'use v_ordrfile', always prompts me for the base table.

2) In reviewing other threads here, it appears that sourcename, when applied to a view, gives the ALIAS of the view, not the path

3) When looking at the dbc directly, for the record for the view, I can't find anywhere that vfp stores the path to the base table. I am inclined to believe that it doesn't, at all, and that therefore, the only way I can get this to work is to have a set path statement in place, which is not ideal, but I guess it will have to do.

If you can shed any further light on this it would be appreciated.