oh by the way you guys have been helping in an excellent way this week. thanks so much. When I use this dtml; if bid, bpurchaseyear, and bdescription are all true. the string ends up being set to 'id,description' It is skipping the bpurchaseyear or taking 'puchaseyear' it out of the string. I am not sure what is happening. <dtml-if bid> <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties(qstring = 'id')"> </dtml-if> <dtml-if bpurchaseyear> <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties(testvalue = qstring)"> <dtml-if bid> <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties(qstring = testvalue + ',' + 'puchaseyear')"> <dtml-else> <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties(qstring = 'purchaseyear')"> </dtml-if> </dtml-if> <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties(testvalue = qstring)"> <dtml-if bdescription> <dtml-if "bid or bpurchaseyear"> <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties(qstring = testvalue + ',' + 'description')"> <dtml-else> <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties(qstring = testvalue + 'description')"> </dtml-if> </dtml-if>