Hello,

"Steves ViewEdit works by allowing me to change the local view SQL but is not able to update the remote view SQL. Why?"

i think only the author of ViewEdit can answer this question ..

but as you stated that you only need this in designtime .. why not just drop and recreate the view from scratch?

i think ViewEdit is also able to create "recreate code" for the view's ..
let yourself create the code and alter the SQL-Statement there

Regards

Christian