Shawn,

Field oCompany should be declared as type Company:

public Company oCompany

>Hi Jason, thanks for all the help.
>I did this and i still get the same error.
>
>

>		//define an object for simplier use in the validation		
>		public object oCompany;



--Update-- Yep, Bonnie beat me to it while I was emailing Kevin the change to his help file.  Either way, that will work now... and thanks again, Bonnie!

---J

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