Help needed for creating view

Hi

Need help in writing a query. I have a table contains details about an item. Each item belongs to a group. Items have different status. If any one of the item in a group is not "Completed", then the itemgroup is in state incomplete. if all the item under the group is completed then the item group itself is completed. Now I need to create a view with itemgroup and itemstatus.
Suppose I have five records

item itemgroup status
1 1 complete
2 1 Xyz
3 2 complete
4 2 complete
5 2 complete

my view should be

itemgroup status
1 incomplete
2 complete

All the Statuses are not predefined...they get added as and when required......

Right now I am using a function. But dont want to use it for performance reasons. Would appriciate any help.

ThanksQuestion: If anything in an itemgroup does not say complete, then it's incomplete?

Sounds simple enough...|||Is that an anwer or a question?|||Well it was a question...but...how's about

USE Northwind
GO

SET NOCOUNT ON
CREATE TABLE myTable99(item int, itemgroup int, status varchar(25))
GO

INSERT INTO myTable99(item, itemgroup, status)
SELECT 1, 1, 'complete' UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 1, 'Xyz' UNION ALL
SELECT 3, 2, 'complete' UNION ALL
SELECT 4, 2, 'complete' UNION ALL
SELECT 5, 2, 'complete'
GO

CREATE VIEW myView99
AS
SELECT DISTINCT l.itemgroup
, CASE WHEN Status_COUNT IS NULL THEN 'Complete' ELSE 'Incomplete' END AS Status
FROM myTable99 l
LEFT JOIN ( SELECT itemgroup, COUNT(*) AS Status_COUNT
FROM myTable99
WHERE status <> 'Complete'
GROUP BY itemgroup) AS r
ON l.itemgroup = r.itemgroup
GO

SELECT * FROM myView99
GO|||Oh, oh! Can I play too?SELECT DISTINCT a.itemgroup
, CASE
WHEN EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM myTable AS b
WHERE b.itemgroup = a.itemgroup
AND b.status <> 'complete') THEN 'incomplete'
ELSE 'complete'
END AS groupStatus
FROM myTable AS a-PatP|||I like that one better....|||Thanks Guys...Both of them are much better than the function I have