I actually do not know what it does, but we discovered it by accident in the remote view wizard. The wizard was putting the () in sometimes, so we tried it. Un fortunately as I answered Naomi, I cannot recall the exact errors it solved. I remember it was a epiphany type event, we had been struggling with the errors for weeks, and they all went away with the ().

>>We eliminated a number of problems by changing:
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>>x=?myparam
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>>to
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>>x=(?myparam)
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>What does that do, except make it easier on the parser? What problems? I'd really like to know.