>>>>>I have coded an EXE in vfp50. This application installs on the user's computer and the data lives on a network server. When one user updates the record, and another user is viewing the same record, her record should automatically update or so I thought. You can see the updated record if you exit the program and restart it. Can someone tell me what is wrong.
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>>>>the second user will not see the update until she refreshes her data set.
>>>Hi Dave: in the help, it says...
>>>SET REFRESH can also be used to specify how often data buffered locally on your workstation is updated.... In my main.prg, I have SET REFRESH to 5,10...
>>>I know SET REFRESH works on a BROWSE, but shouldn't this work on my work station too?
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>>does the first user save her data? is the data committed to the server?
>yes,yes, but remember, I am using VIEWS for my data...

if you're using views, you should know that you have to refresh the view for the new data to show up. in case you forgot how:

use in my_view
use my_view in 0