Yeah, right, it defaults to Logical, But in the visual environment I don't see how to set the data type. I can just "Add Property" and it defaults to logical.

So that's probably my problem there. How do I set the data type on a property?

>Hi Sebastiaan,
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>You should certainly be able to use an string functions on a character based property of your object such as x=len(allt(client.name)). Perhaps the property is not initialized to character? It defaults to logical. What is the error message you get? What is the line of code?
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>>Hi, all
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>>Probably a newbie question here, but I created an object (for instance client) and added the property name to it. Now I can use the object anyway I want, but as soon as I want to use the contents of that property to do some text-editing (like doing a LEFT() or a LEN() function) I get an error message. I assume this is due to a difference in character data-types and object-property types.
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>>Anyone know a function to translate object properties to tekst-strings?
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>>thanks,
>>Sebastian