Rick,
thank you for replying on saturday. I put a hard coded breakpoint in the method so when I clicked on the link in my inbox the debugger stopped in the method. I single stepped through the method code and noticed that the element was populated. I displayed the CONTAINER table in the debugger and it shows the container element is populated. The task container is therefore populated. I then checked the workflow container and it is also set up as IMPORT/EXPORT and is of the same type as the task container and the binding on the task is set up......this is such a conundrum.....the value is not passed to a condition step which is either ACCEPT/REJECT.
Thanks
David