Hi Albert,

You didn't provide any details about your ReportListner. My guess is the it uses EvaluateContents() event to handle its directives. The event only fires for Expression type report elements and shape is not one of them. You can try to put following into kzN field.

IIF(EMPTY(kzN), CHR(160), kzN)

>I have a report with 4 columns. Cursor = listwahl (each record has day1-day31,kz1-kz31,amount1-amount31,datum1-datum31)
>
>Each report column has 31 x 3 Fields to print
>
>day kz amount
>1 x 5
>2 z 12
>.
>.
>30 x 6
>31 q 7
>
>
>If the day is on weekend or public holiday i change the background color (depending from the datum column in my cursor)
>Code at user data of day1,kz1,amount1:
>*:LISTENER BACKCOLOR = icase(listwahl.datum1 = 'SA' or listwahl.datum1 = 'SO', #ROSA#,listwahl.datum1= 'FF' , #RED#,#WHITE#)
>...
>Code at user data of day30,kz30,amount30:
>*:LISTENER BACKCOLOR = icase(listwahl.datum30 = 'SA' or listwahl.datum30 = 'SO', #ROSA#,listwahl.datum30= 'FF' , #RED#,#WHITE#)
>Everything works as wanted !
>But when kzn = empty the changing of the backcolor does not work! (backcolor of text, when not text!!)
>
>Therefor i decide to put a shape around the 3 fields per day
>_______________
>| 1 x 5 | sorry for the stupid drawing ;-)
>---------------
>_______________
>| 2 z 12 |
>---------------
>At userdata of each shape i put the same code that what worked in my original version:
>*:LISTENER BACKCOLOR = icase(listwahl.datum1 = 'SA' or listwahl.datum1 = 'SO', #ROSA#,listwahl.datum1= 'FF' , #RED#,#WHITE#)
>
>But this doesn't work ??????
>The background of the shapes never gets rosa or red ????