Thanks for your suggestion.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to correct the problem.

Are there any other suggestions out there?

Brian


>Try to trim trailing spaces.

lcsource = 'ARCHIVE.' + ALLTRIM(udarc.field_name)
>.controlsource = lcsource
>* or
>.controlsource = 'ARCHIVE.' + ALLTRIM(udarc.field_name)
>

>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a user defined screen in which I want to assign the controsource of a textbox to a value stored in a variable.
>>
>>This works fine:
>>.controlsource='ARCHIVE.FAX'
>>
>>I have a table called udarc which holds the field_name I want to assign as the control source
>>unfortunately when I do:
>>
>>lcsource='ARCHIVE.'+udarc.field_name
>>.controlsource=lcsource
>>
>>I get:
>>
>>the data source for this object must be a variable reference.
>>
>>In this case of course the value in udarc.field_name is 'FAX'
>>
>>How do I get this to work?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Brian