<< And to think about it farther, it makes perfect sense that the page style would be the first evaluated – it establishes the page onto which everthing else is written. It has to be first. If you tried to do it last, how would you get it to go behind everything else? Wouldn’t work. >>
While it makes sense that page style is rendered relatively early when generating a page, it doesn't have to be. Ideally (at least, ideally for ME) it would be rendered after the page header's BEFORE GENERATE EEP, and I think that makes logical sense that that would happen. My problem isn't really the render order of the bands, but a combination of the render order and the variable evaluation. The page style band is already rendered by the time any variables at all are calculated for the page -- page header variables or break point variables. Therefore, the variable (which I'm using to choose which watermark to display) is always one page "out of date" in terms of variable values. It's not a biggy — there are other formatting options I can use to change the look of the page based on variables which don't involve trying to update components on the page style. -- Larry
