Hi Paul

Just a final point. You are doing quite a bit of working around just to maintain the local views.

>Aleksey,
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>I also found out that when RUNNING a form that contains a View (with a macro-substituted parameter) in it's Data Environment, the "variable" name that is used in the View Definition must exist as a non-empty string BEFORE the view is opened. This is true even if the View is opened with NODATA. This behavior is new to VFP 9.0.
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>This was not a problem for me since I use the same variable in all of my view definitions where I macro-substitute the parameter, so I just created it as a Public variable in my main program.
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>Thanks Again,
>Paul