Tracy,

The DynamicBackColor evaluates a character expression, so your second example should work. I would take anopther look at grid.getpolicycolor to make sure it returns correct values.

HTH

Sorin

> 2nd example
>

>*--This one has the function in the property correctly but it doesn't evaluate it
>WITH this.pgfprofile.pagpolicy.policygrid
>   FOR nColumnID = 1 TO .columncount
>      colorvalue = "thisform.getpolicycolor('" + .recordsource + "','" + .columns(nColumnID).controlsource + "')"
>      .Columns(nColumnID).dynamicbackcolor = colorvalue
>
>      *--ColorValue = "this.getpolicycolor('TPOLICY','PO_STATUS')"
>      *--This is correct, however it is stored as a character expression and doesn't run dyanmically
>   ENDFOR
>ENDWITH
>