sympmarc: thanks for the quick reply ... after further investigation it appears that the fact the column is defined as numeric might be a red herring ... I am working on a pre-existing list with list items ... do you know what effect
1) if a column was created in sharepoint after a list item was entered and then I try to use spservices to update that new column on the old list item? or
2) if a list has versioning and saves last 5 versions but I can only see latest version and try to update the new column
3) if a list requires content approval and I try to update the new column
last question: when retrieving a list item, does sharepoint only return the fields that have values? thanks!
1) if a column was created in sharepoint after a list item was entered and then I try to use spservices to update that new column on the old list item? or
2) if a list has versioning and saves last 5 versions but I can only see latest version and try to update the new column
3) if a list requires content approval and I try to update the new column
last question: when retrieving a list item, does sharepoint only return the fields that have values? thanks!