I didn't read it well. I was thinking you had NO records for
the repeater.... okay so in your getadlink function can't you just return a
specific string is the value='' or isnull

WAIT ... .I just looked at your code  ... why is that running through a
function - is it generating different links based on the appid? why don't
you just do something like

<a href=myeditlink.asp?ID=<%# eval("appid")%> for the EDIT line and then
something similar for the others... and if there is no appid is there still
a row?

I think Dean is right ... I think we need to see code behind.