>>Hi nadya,
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>>It does work with the view designer. However you'll have to omit the question mark. (so &cWhere) and be sure the cWhere variable does not exists. I'm not sure what you mean by "use this view as part of database" though. all views are part of a database....
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>>Walter,
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>Is it changed when you do requery() ?
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>I have to try it...
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>It doesn't allow me to do it. I open ViewSQL, remove my where condition and put &cWhere instead of the whole where clause. It produces an error and reverts back to original filter. What can I do?
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>Thanks.

Just set a public variable cWhere = ".t." before saving the view or make cWhere as a parameter to view (Char Type) but then You must change WHERE clause to &?cWhere