Ok I am hoping to make this clear. I have a page that uses 2 tables for display. This table is set in an index page, not on the actual display page. The one column lists all the options (which homeroom student to change grades for) and the 2nd one shows the grades that can be changed. It works fine. I added a page where teachers can add reading students to their to their groups- then they can change the grades just for that one subject. This is set up exactly as the 1st page, except for the fact that only the one subject is shown. (confidentiality reasons-don't want reading teacher seeing math grades/etc). The adding students/grades works smoothly. The problem is the initial call to this new page. I have my first page set up to show a msg if there is no student id-- "please pick a student...blahblah". I wanted the same thing (Or to default to the 1st student) for the reading page too. This doesn't happen. What happens depends on which page I come from- the 1st page that lists the homeroom or the update reading class page. 1. If I come from the homeroom class it works fine- I get the list of students and the msg "please pick student...." 2. I can return to the homeroom page without any problems- it goes to the first student. 3. If I come from the update students in reading group I get the same student (not in the current reading group)that it always defaults to the same student. I can't figure out what I need to do different to make this also default to the msg or correct reading student. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, j My query for this is a simple select query that uses a where clause to <CFQUERY DATASOURCE="#Request.dsn#" Name="StuR"> SELECT FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME STUDENTID, GRADE FROM Schools WHERE STUDENTID=#STUDENTID# ORDER BY LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists