Gregory,

Thank you for the info. I'm going to do something along those lines as you and Stephan have suggested.


>Elgin,
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>Oh, I see now...
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>This.name will be re-evaluated each time the datasource is accessed. It may well be the Name of the grid ?
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>Best is not to have variable in filters
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>Try this
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>*SET FILTER TO ALLTRIM(datafield) = ALLTRIM(This.Name)
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>local f
>f = [alltrim(datafield) = '] + ALLTRIM(This.Name) + [']
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>set filter to &f
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