John

Thanks for the answer

Excuse my ignorance but how do I add a method to a grid?

>>I have tried multiple colors in a grid before but so far have not cracked it even with help from the experts
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>>Let me try again
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>>I have a table called manifest which has a field called status
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>>If status is A I want to color the row blue
>>If B the row will be red
>>If C the row will be green
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>>How do I do it?
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>>A real layman's explanation would be greatly appreciated
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>>Thanks
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>>Colin Northway
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>Colin,
>I'm not sure if this is the most efficent way but we create a new method on the form (or grid) with a case statement:
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>METHOD StatColor
>
>do case
> case status = 'A'
>   return rgb(whatever color)
> case status = 'B'
>   return rgb(whatever color)
> case status = 'B'
>   return rgb(whatever color)
>endcase
>

>Then, in each column of the grid in the DynamicBackColor we put:
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>Thisform.StatColor()
>