The foolowing command

SET SKIP OF BAR m.zi OF helppopup m.zskip

sets skip condition to m.zskip. While you are in a loop m.zskip is correct because it's calculated for each bar. After you exit loop all BAR's will be desabled or enabled based on the vaue of m.zskip. The modification to code shown below shoud fix this problem.

    FOR m.zi = 1 TO CNTBAR("helppopup")
       m.zskip = <b>IIF( EVAL(zfiltstr), ".T.", ".F.")</b>
       SET SKIP OF BAR m.zi OF helppopup <b>&zskip</b>
    ENDFOR

>Here is that actual call Ive used for the helpme function
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>m.zsavealias = ALIAS()
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>= helpme(m.zsavealias, "company", " " + m.zsavealias + ".company + ' CMP' + ;
> TRANSFORM(" + m.zsavealias + ".cmpny_no, '@L 99999')", ;
> "xselectbar", LEN(&zsavealias..company) + 11, ;
> IIF(EMPTY(m._vsouserid), '.F.', IIF(m._vsosuper, '.F.', '!SEEK(codeit(m._vsouserid) + codeit(PADR(PRMBAR("helppopup", m.zi), 80)), "vsosecur")')), .F., .T.)
>
>basically this is a popup that has the companies that are there in the app and the user is controlled by a security database and the skip will be based on the user access rights. Bit complex but here it is, otherwise the helpme function shines out where I want to set filter, normal helps, great. But skip does not work