Mike,

If I declare the BEGBAL variable before hand with a LOCAL call, would that help correct this problem?

Thanks

>To start, please clarify the first select which appears to have a few parenthesis missing.
>
>But in general, you define some default values as 0.00. If these happen to occur in the first record, they define the size of the field, in other words a 4 character number with 2 decimal places. If other data in other select statement has a different value for its first record that is not 4 characters with 2 decimal places, you will get a union incompatible error. In other words the field definitions must be exactly the same. You can specify zero values as 00000.00 for example just to 'define' the field size.
>
>HTH
>
>Mike
>
>>Well,
>>
>>I HAD a complex SELECT with a UNION but it gave me an error - I performed a HACKUP job on my SELECT statements and got down to these 2 fields in each select. Can
>> someone tell me WHY I am still getting a UNION incompatible error? What am I doing wrong!!!!!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Select ;
>> sum(iif(code.codetype="Time" and log.logdate iif((code.codetype="Expense" or code.codetype="WIP")
>> and ;
>> log.logdate iif(code.codetype=="Billings" and ;
>> log.logdate 0.00 as logamt ;
>> from Timepro!log left join timepro!code on log.codeid=code.codeid ;
>> where log.firmid=gFirmid and log.logdate<=gEnddate and log.clientid<>0 ;
>> UNION ALL ;
>> Select ;
>> 0.00 as begbal, ;
>> iif(code.codetype="Time" or code.codetype="Administrative",log.time*log.rate, ;
>> iif (code.codetype=="Billings",log.rate*-1,log.rate)) as logamt ;
>> from timepro!log left join timepro!code on log.codeid=code.codeid ;
>> where (log.firmid=gFirmid and log.clientid<>0 and ;
>> log.logdate>=gStartDate and log.logdate<=gEnddate) ;
>> into cursor curswip ;
>> order by 1 && clientid & codenum