VShine

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunatly this did not work, partially due to my lack of experience. Let me pose the question differently: How are the records taht are displayed in a portal treated? are these a found sub set of the database? Can set Field put test from one field into another? Vince

I am creating a database that is meant to score some records with keywords once a collection of records have been scored I need to label the subset of records with a category name. I have set up a many to many relational database using a portal. When using a pull down list of established keywords the records show up in the portal. Once this sub set has een found I need to enter test in a field that would assign its value to the visible records. Is it possible to use a variable to get the value of the field and then insert this text into a field in another file?