>Ed,
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>Thanks for the help, I think I'm getting closer. I changed from using the dataenvironment of the report writer to using SQL to create the data and that works fine.
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>I can get a basic report to work but I'm stuck on a report variable.
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>mout = iif(amount = 0,"Out"," ")
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>It doesn't seem to like the fact that I'm mixing types, I get a error message "Variable 'Out' not found". Any thoughts on work arounds, I tried numerous things but no success.
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I have no idea. Does it work when you run the report directly using REPORT FORM? If not, then it's an issue with the FRX rather than FRXTOWORD.