>Thanks for replying. I am using the framework built-in instance of cGridTextBoxMaintenance to get incremental search in the texbox and everything looks okay except it doesn't do the incremental search. The only change I made from my working incremental search using a view was reference changes from v_staff to ca_staff. I did create a CA called Staff and selected "Native" data. Any Ideas where I went wrong? I am using Optimistic Row Buffering as the Buffermode overide in the Data Access tab of the CA Builder. Is this wrong?

That is not wrong. Setting it to Record Buffering is fine. I just wanted to makes sure you were not using table buffering when trying to index a cursor. When you change over to a CA, you can still have the CA use the same Alias name. There maybe something buried in code that has not been changed from v_staff to ca_staff. You might try changing back to v_staff and change the Alias property of your CA to v_staff instead of ca_staff. The key is to not make sweeping changes all at once. It is too hard to figure out which particular change caused a problem when you do.