I suspect this is an easy question to answer, but I can't seem to figure out how to initialize a repeating field without 'touching' each of the instances within a field. I have ~160 fields that repeat 42 times each. I want to create a script that will let me loop through an initialization process or better yet, invoke a command that will initialize all 42 instances at once.

Any help would be appreciated.

Arny

How well are you versed in relational database design??? Repeating fields are best left as utility things to make OR keying in relations and to fly in graphics which in it self can't be indexed.

Since you've been around in this forum since the late 2003 must warnings against repeating have come to you notion once and a while??

Do you mean that a ~160 fields that each repeats 42 times, is a particular normalized structure??? In this case must you explain why portals and relations won't work in your case?? Combinations with Choose and GetRepetitions isn't e.g. particular fast compared to the Lookup Next Higher in a price matrix!!!

--sd