I'm obviously not understanding something. I've got a requirement to initially display a blank form with some checkboxes checked. What I have is a TakeoverAuditAssignmentForm with a setDefaults() method that sets the checkboxes to true. My NewDealerAction calls the setDefault() method then gets the mapping which forwards to the jsp. When the screen displays the boxes aren't checked. I didn't put the logic in the reset() because I only want this to happen the first time. Can someone tell me what I'm missing or a better way to handle this? action path="/newDealer" type="com.dcs.cfc.aim.action.NewDealerAction" name="takeoverAuditAssignmentForm" scope="session" forward name="success" path= "/WEB-INF/jsp/takeoverAuditAssignmentLayout.jsp" forward name="failure" path= "/WEB-INF/jsp/auditAssignmentException.jsp" action (I took the '<' & '>' off the tags intentionally for the email) NewDealerAction - TakeoverAuditAssignmentForm toForm = (TakeoverAuditAssignmentForm) form; toForm.setDefaults(request); System.err.println("Checkboxes are : " + toForm.getPhysicalAudit()); return mapping.findForward(Constants.SUCCESS); --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]