PRB: Syntax Error When You Modify Local View w/ Reserved Words

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b

SYMPTOMS

After you create a local view to a table, any attempt to modify fields with Visual FoxPro reserved words for field names results in this error:

   Syntax Error

CAUSE

This error occurs when Visual FoxPro attempts to send the modified data to the source table where the field name is a Visual FoxPro reserved word.

RESOLUTION

Rename the field in the table to a non-reserved word.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Visual FoxPro does not support the use of reserved words as field names in tables. This behavior does not occur with all reserved words.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a new table.

2. Add a field called Value to the table; any data type works.

3. Add some records to the table.

4. Create a local view to the new table.

5. Click the Fields tab, and add the field to the Selected Output list.

6. Click the Update Criteria tab, and set the field to be the Key Field and Updatable. Then select the Send SQL Updates check box.

7. Run the view.

8. Modify the data, and move the record pointer. At this point, you receive the Syntax Error.

9. Use =TABLEREVERT(.T.) to clear the error.

REFERENCES

For more information about reserved words, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q130440
   TITLE     : Reserved Words in Visual FoxPro