Thank you, Sergey

>Any property (including arrays) cannot be passed by reference.
>You have to copy it to a local array, pass local array by reference and then copy back if necessary.
>
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>>I am trying to pass a form's array property by reference.
>>myform.ayparam, which is a two dimensional array
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>>the call:
>>llSuccess = PXREQUERY(ALIAS(), .T., @thisform.ayParam)
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>>the function:
>>function pxrequery( tuView, tlForce, taViewParams)
>>exteranl array taViewParams
>>
>>
>>on the call line, the error is 13, alias not found
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>>can I do this? and if so, what am i doing wrong
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Al Allison