>Joe,
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>Too bad you cut out the code - makes this harder than it needs to be!
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>Are you sure that the memvar that you are capturing the _CUROBJ to in the field VALID is defined PUBLIC?
>If it is not, then the one referenced in the READ's VALID will not be the same one.
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>Good luck,
>JIm N
>
>>I tried setting _CUROBJ to staff.number and I tried _CUROBJ = 1 since the get is the first one in the read. It never moves the get off of whatever field I'm on (which happened to be a button. It's got me at this point, and I'm about ready to say heck with it, but I'd really like to have it work

Try: _Curobj = objnum ( xxx.yyyy )