It's background color of the text in the field not the background color of the field itself. No text - no background color. You can put opaque shape under transparent field and change the color of the shape instead.

>cursor = listwahl contains datum1 for each record
>datum1 is never printed, i use it only for setting the backcolor of the printed fields.
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>In my report i have the following code at userdata of all textfields.
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>*:LISTENER BACKCOLOR = icase(listwahl.datum1 = 'SA' or listwahl.datum1 = 'SO', #ROSA#,listwahl.datum1= 'FF' , #RED#,#WHITE#)
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>If weekend backcolor = ROSA, if public holiday backcolor RED, otherwise WHITE
>Everything works as expected, when .
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>But the backcolor is not set if the field value in my report is empty(blank) ????
>I want the backcolor even when the field is empty.
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