Hi Marcia:

It works - yes and no.

Her is what I am trying to accomplish. Grid1 has 8 columns. The 1st column has the time. Columns 2-8 are for the 7 days in a week. The date on column 2's header is dependent onthe current date. I placed your code in the DynamicBackcolor property of Columns 2-8. If I choose a date from the calendar object, then the grid is repopulated by an SQL statement which displays the data for 7 days beginning from the date I selected. Here are the observations:

- When the form containing the grid is launched, Columns 2-8 are blue
- When I selected March 18, 2001 (cuz I have some test data for that date), I get the message "Expression is invalid. Use a valid expression for DYNAMICBACKCOLOR property". Then I loose the colors after that.
- I then set the sytem date to March 18, 2001 and launched the form
- All cells in the columns without the word "BLOCK" were in blue and the ones with "BLOCK" were in red.
- However, when I click another date on the calendar (even the next day 19th) I get the same message "Expression is invalid. Use a valid expression for DYNAMICBACKCOLOR property".

Thanks.

- Ravi


>Hello Ravi.
>
>I just tried this code but got the following VFP message:
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>"Expression is invalid. Use a valid expression for DYNAMICBACKCOLOR property"
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>As I said, it was untested < s >. This does work: put this expression into the DynamixBackColorProperty for each column you want to set:
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>IIF( 'BLOCK' $ < Alias.Field >, RGB( 255, 0, 0 ), RGB( 0, 0, 255 ) )
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>where you substiture the correct alias and field name in the expression above and remove the angle brackets.