This msg is actually for:
Bruce Campbell, Mike Fournier

I guess I should have mentioned that I was DOing my
form from a menu. So I have a form called Metadata.
I was executing the form from an ON SELECTION in my
menu - DO FORM "METADATA".
Bruce:
Thanks for the WEXIST() idea, works great, but where to put it?

Mike:
Although I had trouble getting my app to recognize the value of ISNULL('metadata'), the menu SKIP FOR was
a great simple idea!

So a combo of your two ideas was the ticket:

define bar 1 of toolbox prompt "\skip for wexist('metadata')
on selection bar 1 of toolbox do form 'metadata'

Thanks,
John

John Morga
Sr. Manager Information Systems
Applications Development Group
Systems Engineer
Telephonics Corporation
http://www.telephonics.com