Hi Nancy,

>I have a public custom property with a public assign method.
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Property = "alias"
>Method = "alias_access()"

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>in code I issue this:
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IF EMPTY( this.alias )

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>I expect the access method to fire, but it doesn't. Indeed it had, at one point, but I don't know what I've broken.
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>I've tried assigning the property to a value, also, with no success.
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>Thanks for any thoughts or trout you can pass my way. :)

Christof Lange posted a message on UT or Compuserve recently that discussed a bug where the type function disabled the Access/Assign method. When you called type against an array, i.e. type("This.aVal[1]") or something like that. I can't find it now. (And I'm not driving back to work to find it for you today <VBG>)

From your code snippet this doesn't seem to apply, but... you never know.
HTH,