VFP locks DBC header shortly when view is open. In your error handler you can just retry when it's happens. If it became a problem, you can put all your views into separate database and keep local copy of that database on each WS.

>Hi All,
>I had an odd occurance happen today. One of data entry utilities gave this error. I swear I have never seen it before.
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>"Database object is being used by someone else."
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>It happened when a view was being opened. I thought a database could be opened by more than one person.
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>Any thoughts?
>Thanks,