Jason,

Thanks for the reply. My use of terminology may have caught me up here. What I had was two views where I had specified some filter conditions in the view designer.

In this case, I solved the problem by changing the filter condition to "lflag = .T. OR [bunch of conditions]" and was able to make it work with the one view.

I am still struggling(?) with "how, when, where and why" to use a new view in MM and VFP, and fear I may have gone overboard in that I seem to have an abundance of views for a relatively simple application. Is this typical, or do most apps have only a few views that are more general, as opposed to a specific view for each aspect of the data?

I have a view that is basically everything in the table, which I could use for just about every aspect of this app, but I got the impression that that was not the "proper" way to handle things as if an app gets converted to remote views, then you don't want to download everything from the back end. Now, this app will probably never be used with remote data, but I figured that good coding practices should be followed regardless. Of course, that requires that I recognize what "good coding practices" are <g>

Thanks,

June

>June,
>
>Why did you decide to use filters for these? Are you displaying this filtered data? If not, you can just issue a replace as you did with the "old" way.
>
>If you definitely need to use filters, check out the help for setting filters through the DE. Typically, you put code in the DE.PostInitHook():
>

>This.CreateIndex(This.GetInitialSelectedAlias(), ;
>	'INDEX ON lFlag = .T. TAG Flag')
>This.CreateIndex(This.GetInitialSelectedAlias(), ;
>	BunchOfConditionsIndexStatement)
>

>
>If memory serves me correctly, be aware that when this executes, the last CreateIndex call filter command is the active one, so you can switch that as you need with the SET ORDER TO (tagname) as usual.
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>This way, you don't need to go to the database to retrieve multiple copies of this data, worry about InitialSelectedAlias shuffling, or create multiple DEs.
>
>Hope that helps,
>---J
>
>>I want to reset a flag in a table, then set it selectively based on certain contents of a filtered view.
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>>The old way would be:
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>>replace all lflag with .F. in table for lflag = .T.
>>replace all lflag with .T in table for [ a bunch of conditions ]
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>>I made two views of the table, one filtered on lflag = .T. and one filtered on the "bunch of conditions".
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>>Do I need two bizobjs to do the updates or can I somehow make do with just one, and somehow tell the bizobj which view is "in control"?
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>>Or is there a third option that is an even better way to do this?
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>June