Hi, I had a quick look at your report. There were quite a few errors in your XPaths, when selecting an attribute you must have a slash before the @ symbol: e.g. BookingReferenceID@ID should be BookingReferenceID/@ID When I corrected these mistakes the text field $V{VINV} displayed just fine. Actually, you do not really need a variable for this expression, you can place the expression: $F{SINVOICENUMBER}.equals($F{INVOICENUMBER}) ? "ciao" : "NO" directly into the expression for the text field. Regards, Colin E. ----------- Now can someone please answer my question: http://www.jasperforge.org/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=215&func=view&id=18442&catid=9 Hint hint!