>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.

Thank you for correcting me. I never use backcolor for reports, and thought it behaved just like backcolors in grids. I did not occur to me that the behavior for reports was different, but when thinking of it, it sounds reasonable.

>>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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