I figured that. :) I was just trying to avoid the whole scope issue all together.

Thanks,

Michelle


>Make cCustno an application object property or some other object property that is always in scope.
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>>I'm running into the problem where I set the filter to a variable and later on it moves the record pointer and complains that the variable doesn't exist when it re-evaluates the filter.
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>>Is there a way to say "SET FILTER TO custno = lcCustno" and have it set to the _value_ in lcCustno so that later on it doesn't need to have lcCustno in scope?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Michelle