Stefan

Thanks for the shameless plug; unfortunately, that software is inadequate for our purpose. I did come up with a workaround, which you can read all about on the FP 5 board.

Seems to me the best way to do this is as follows: Define a two fields: Comment -- Text Full Comment -- Calculation: If(IsEmpty(Comment),"",FirstName & " " & Comment) Use the Comment field on your layout, with a pop-up menu, to choose the comment, but make it non-printing (cmd-option-T); put the Full Comment field on the layout wherever you want it to print. If nothing is selected in the Comment field, the Full Comment field will be blank. If you want to use a custom comment, just enter it into the Comment field manually. At risk of stating the obvious, all the comments must be formatted to make sense with the student name at the beginning ("I really enjoyed having such-and-such in my class" will not work). Bon chance

The GetSummary function will work, but only if the file is properly sorted. What I would do is place the summary fields on your layout, but make them so small as to be invisible; or make the text color white; or format them not to be printed. This way, the summaries will always be evaluated dynamically.

I've been using FP to run dispatch for my messenger company. Is there any way to dynamically designate the repitition number of a repeating field when using it in a script? That is, can I use a formula result to choose which repitition I want to use? I've been unable to do this either with the Scriptmaker or Applescript.