>Hi Everyone,
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>I have routinely used a two table view to delete a parent record and it's child records. Have used the view designer to do this and it works fine. But have just run into a case where I have a parent table and this table has 4 child tables related to it.
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>When I tried to work up the view in the view designer, it seems to create it okay (somewhat) - and I used LEFT OUTER JOINS as not all the child tables will always have child records.
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>Anyhow, could not save the view to try it out. Should I be able to do this in the view designer or do I have to do a hand-coded view? or maybe I have to do 4 different views, one for each child table?
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>Thanks,
>Albert Gostick

The new view designer in the later versions of VFP should fix the problem your having...
Or you can use EView (located here in the downloads section)...
Or you can hand-code your views...

I've done things like this in the past & I've never had any problems, however I've been told it's not a good idea to have more than one updateable table in a view.....(I see Cetin has already pointed this out)