Hi Sergey, thanks for the reply.

>Does your application uses another shared DBC iin addition to the local one? It seems that any shared object in the DBC could cause this error, not just views.

The application accesses a single dbc, which contains remote views and a single connection definition - no stored procedures or .dbfs.

Now each user has their own local copy of the dbc (and also a local copy of the .exe that uses the .dbc), nothing can be shared (can it?), which makes the occurrence of error 1709 all the more strange. I have checked that all views use a shared connection - should I 'unshare' the connection? If so, would this not result in longer access to the backend data? The connection name is the same for all views.

Any further ideas would be appreciated.

Regards,
Alan