Sometime the Project Manager/Builder gets confused between arrays and UDFs. Adding following code kludge could eliminate the error

IF .F.
  DIMENSION _vstatus[1]
ENDIF

>I am now trying to dynamically set the status by scanning an array that contains a status and corresponding backcolor value. It returns the value correctly when I manually do it but when I compile I receive the error "Unable to find Unknown _VSTATUS" but I have the statement 'EXTERNAL ARRAY _vstatus' in the method:
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>LPARAMETERS qcvalue
>
>EXTERNAL ARRAY _vstatus
>
>IF TYPE('qcvalue')<>"C" .or. EMPTY(qcvalue)
>	RETURN "RGB(255,255,255)"
>ENDIF
>
>lccolor = IIF(ASCAN(_vstatus,qcvalue)>0,_vstatus(ASCAN(_vstatus,qcvalue)+1),RGB(255,255,255))
>
>RETURN lccolor
>

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>Any ideas why it doesn't see it? The array _vstatus is public and visible throughout the app so during runtime it will exist, don't know why the builder doesn't like it.