I would just include it in the create cursor, then populate when appropriate.

Bob

>>That should work, if you are not doing the entire grid you have to prevent the grid from blowing up with one of the standard techniques. Also this adds the column to the end of the grid so you may need to adjust the column order as well.
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>Hi Robert,
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>After discussion with my manager we decided to just hardcode these 2 cases.
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>However, I have a little problem. I have a method that creates a cursor, which is later used for the grid.
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>Do you think I should just add an extra field to this CREATE CURSOR command or should I have case statements here as well? I'm not yet sure if FormatType would be already available when this method is fired, thoug I can adjust that.
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>Thanks.