Paul, genius!  Exactly what I have struggled with for a week now.As you can see I am a self taught LiveCycle designer (mostly from the adobe forum questions/solutions.)Can't thank you enough.Best!

Now you got what I am trying to accomplish. Thanks so muchLindsay R. Carpenter @ 9-8609

Paul, Thanks so much, but not yet a go  The code you suggest works, but does not give me the desired results.  Don't I have to use the detail.PTFT?  What is happening now is that if the first row details.detail.PTFT = 1 or 2 then it sums all the salaries in the MU employee salary box.  If details.de...

I am trying to use an if statement in an addinstance of an interactive form.  Based on the results of one field in the addinstance, I want to sum a different field from the add instance.  So, the customer can add any number of rows and choose from a drop down (coded 1-4) the position of the person. ...