Joe-

>I buffered them both for a reason. It allows me to insert,edit,delete records in the view, then tableupdate. This updates the base table but the changes still are not committed. Then if depending on that I want... I can tableupdate (or tablerevert) the base table and everything is saved or it returns to it's initial state.

In that case you'll need to TableUpdate the table, too. I still don't see why you need to double buffer. Generally I wouldn't table update the view until I knew I really wanted to tableupdate. But there's an exception to every rule. It's just operating outside the normal channels.
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>There's actually a parent of "test" and the view (of "test") is the related
>children. I use a view instead of a relation since the view is actually
>(in my real code) made up if two different tables. VFP can't deal with that in a grid.

Yes, that sounds about like the common situation.