Rick,

Thanks for the reply.

I had never tried with a DBC before, so I hadn't seen the feature work as of yet. I've thought of a couple of possible hacks, but there was nothing in the documentation that had led me to believe this is an issue directly related to lack of a DBC. I just thought that maybe I'd missed something simple.

If you do come up with something, I'd like to take a look at it.

regards,

JE

>Jim,
>I never noticed this before, but you are right, the Copy Table option only seems to be valid for tables/views already in a DBC - not free tables. I just verified this on SDT 6.1b, so an "update" isn't going to help.
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>If you don't get another reply from someone at Stonefield, I'll look into the code tomorrow. There may be an easy unofficial way to do this for free tables, since everything we need appears to be in in COREMETA and STDMETA.
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>Rick
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>>I am using Stonefield on a legacy set of free table data with no DBC. I have had great success creating metadata on existing data, however, I would like to create all of the "archive" tables metadata, which should have the same exact structures as the live tables with the copy table feature in Stonefield.
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>>Unfortunately, this option stays grayed out on both the context menu and from the toolbar in the database explorer. Any thoughts on how to do this without having to create the tables first in order to add them to the metadata would be greatly appreciated.
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>>regards,
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>>JE