hello Elmer -

that's a big BINGO -- thanks so much. !!



>Patrick,
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>ZAP on a remote view, in my experience, does not work even if you do tableupdate() since you have removed all records from the RV that might have had a link to the records in the underlying table. You need to DELETE ALL in the RV then Tableupdate(1,.t.) to remove records from the underlying table.
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>HTH