>Hi Sergey
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IF TYPE("Thisform.myobject.Name") = "C"

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>At the risk of being pedantic, the above is true except in two cases:
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>[1] The object was created using SCATTER NAME from a table which does not include a field called "Name". The EMPTY base class (used with SCATTER NAME) does not have any exposed properties at all - not even a name.
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>[2] The name property has been flagged as 'Hidden' (and is called from anywhere but the root class) or 'Protected' (and is called from anywhere but root or sub class).
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>In either case the above line of code will fail. The only really safe test is still:
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IF TYPE( "Thisform.myobject" ) = "O" AND NOT ISNULL( Thisform.myobject )

Hi Andy,

You're right. I'm curious why would somebody make "Name" property Protected/Hidden?