Yo! When exporting an option field I’ll get “yellow” out of the collor field. But the reciever is in a diffrent language where yellow is not valid. Is there a simple way to make the export field the sequens number instead? Eg. 0,1,2,3 … Or maybe an even more stylish way? I’ve got several option fields in this table and I’m a lazy bugger 
/K
format(optionfield,0,’’); Viola!
Thanx! Seems to work fine! Thougt there maybe was a property to set or some ML setting but I’ll stick to your method. /K
format property for the dataport option field must be