I'm not sure that I fully understand what you want but I think you can achieve it by creating a calculation field called cAlert. The calculation would besomething like:

if[summary > quote/2, "Warning", :""]

You can place this field in a strategic place and, as long as it is transparent, even over the top of another field.

Hope this he;ps.

i have 2 fields both $,1 is a quote price,other is a summary of a repeating field. i want to create an alert when the summary field is half of the quote price.

thanks in advance for any help

howard

Or you can change the background color of the field with the same calculation, only the result is a color in a containerfield.