17 June 2004 Follow-up: Many thanks to Dan Soares at Stony Brook University for pointing out that the issue I mentioned below is easily addressed by simply selecting the view column option for 'Case sensitive sorting'. Thanks Dan!

If you change the value of a categorized field, changing only the case of the letters, the displayed category in views will not change. So far I have only tested this in ND6. It appears to be similar to SPR # GCUN5ECLRD, which reports that one cannot rename a folder (using the shortcut menu after right-clicking on the folder) - if one is trying to simply change the case of the folder name.

Regarding the view category, here's the scenario: I provide a function to allow a user to change the value of a categorized field. The button is used to, for example, change a value of 'Abc' to now be 'ABC'. The documents are all changed, but the view still displays the old 'Abc' in the category. The only solution I've found so far is to first change the field value to something that includes at least one additional or different letter, like 'ABCz', and then to change the field value to the desired value of 'ABC'. Similarly the SPR referenced above suggests workaround of renaming the folder to something completely different, and then setting it to what one really wants.

At least this time the issue doesn't appear to be my own goofy blunder, but I do wish I could provide a cleaner solution. The only thing I've come up with so far is possibly putting code in the button to capture the desired new field value, set the field to that value plus something bogus like 'z~z', and then set the field to the REAL new value. Man, that's goofy!