>>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).
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>Yes
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>>ie : You could do like this :
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>>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
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>Wow that means that I can do this once (at time of reinstllation) and I can avoid unnecesary function calls.
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>I will try this at the soonest.

Yes. Also after doing that :
compile database DBCName && VFP6 SP3 and later
Cetin