My assumtion is you are using local views. The reason for parameter views is to be able to change the where of a view. You can set a varible to filter active or not active. Example

lcActive = "Y"
lcName = "George"

Select * from customer where active = ?lcActive and name = ?lcName

To answere your other view question, a simple way to do this would be as follows,

llSupervisor = .t.

Select * from customer where active = ?lcActive and ;
iif(?llSupervisor,suppername = ?lcName,name = ?lcName)

>The view I have loaded to my form uses parameters to filter by name and if the record has a field set to active. Now I would like to put a function on the form to view a record that has the field set to inactive. How is this done?