>When desiging a view and have the following expression as one of the fields:
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PADR(MyTable.MyMemoField,200) As MyCharacterfield

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>it is impossible te make this field updatable within the query designer. When I manually set updatable to .T. with changing the the DBSETPROP line into
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DBSetProp(ThisView+".MyCharacteField","Field","Updatable",.T.)

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>within the SQL window, it's automatically reset when I save the View. The only workarround is to bypass the view designer and use a PRG to define the view programtically.
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My guess would be 'by design'. You're creating a custom field, and I don't think updates from them can be saved. Include the memo field with its original name and it should update without problems.

Chris.