That works perfectly. Instead of having the instanceManager 'count' how many nodes there are, just ask it to return the instanceIndex of the current node. Thank you Steve.

I'm trying to create a dynamic caption field that essential will make the text fields look like a list.  At first I searched on how to do this.  I eventually found a way to do it, and that is simply to to count how many instances of the text field I have and set the caption value:     var curObject ...