You were correct Sorin, I had to make some modifications to that method.

>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
>>