Ken,

As David indicated, View Designer is available only at design time. You would have to write your own designer that is easy enough for users to figure out -- not a simple task.

We wrote one about six years ago -- it worked -- but it was a monster and difficult to maintain. Additionally, no matter what insane user action we anticipated, the users managed to come up with still others even more insane.

When Henning came up with Stonefield Query, I nominated him for King. I don't think the nomination went anywhere, however. So far as I know, Canada is still a Republic.

The cost of Stonefield Query is truly paltry compared to the time involved in designing a query process of your own.

Regards,