hi, I know there have been discussions of this in the past - but I was doing some stuff today and came across something related thats already been mentioned but still appears to be absent if I use %{client:shortname} and my clients.conf contains shortname = blahblah then i get a string expansion in unlang of "blahblah" = good (and, in fact I can add any random line to the client stanza and it will work as per email from Alan some months back) = good however, If my clients are in SQL (postgresql or MySQL) then the expansion doesnt work, %{client:shortname} expands to "" what work needs to be done, or area of code explored for this expansion to work when the clients are in SQL? (i see from the startup in debg mode that the shortnames in the SQL are all read and noted...) many thanks alan