so i have a pedigree that i am working on, and i would like it to show
symbols which are dependent on two things, the person's sex (male or
female) and the persons gene. so i have made one file with that
information: person id, name, sex,gene,dob, etc... i have made another
file that stores the gene and two symbols for it (one for male other
for female).

so now what i want is to pick in the person's info file thier sex and
then thier gene and want the specific symbol to show up matching both
catergories. how can i do this? thanks in advance.

You define a calc field, returned as container. I doing simple conditions
only, you could incorporate AND conditions as needed:

If ( Sex = "M" ; MaleIcon ; FemaleIcon )

which assumes that the sex will be one or the other. You could also do

Case (

Sex = "M" ; MaleIcon ;

Sex = "F" ; FemaleIcon ;

"" )

which allows for a null (not sure?) value, such as for Michael Jackson.

Matt

On 6/21/2005, pri wrote: