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Guys, thanks for the replies.

Where are you putting the variable?

Not sure what you mean by this. The variable is an added user field, and that conditional statement is in the postbit_legacy template. If this hasn't asnwered your question could you explain it differently for me please?

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NolF

The feild is indeed private, so that only admin can amend it for each account.

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Antivirus

No, they are text fields.

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To be clear.. this works intermitently, and "seemingly" randomly.

In other words if I included the test code :

<if condition="$post[field10] == ''">
XXX
<else />
YYY
</if>

Then sometimes the thread would load and there would be XXX next to the user's name, and another time the same thread loads, the same user would have YYY next to their name without any changes taking place in the database for those fields against that user.