>OK so you want to manage from another table as metadata. How about doing your way but changing default/validation for view once at a suitable place (typically when metadata is edited and saved).

Yes

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>ie : You could do like this :
>
>

>open data myData
>select metadata
>scan
>  lcViewField = trim(VievName -'.'-ViewFieldName)
>  DBSetProp(lcViewField,"FIELD","RuleText",FieldRuleText)
>  DBSetProp(lcViewField,"FIELD","RuleExpression",FieldRuleExpr)
>  DBSetProp(lcViewField,"FIELD","DefaultValue",FieldDefaultExpr)
>endscan
>

Cetin

Wow that means that I can do this once (at time of reinstllation) and I can avoid unnecesary function calls.

I will try this at the soonest.