--- title: Using WITH=START as a Field Attribute description: Make your MEDITECH NPR reports more efficient using the WITH field attribute to control when a field should be evaluated during a report run. --- [![IPeopleHealthcare_White](https://blog.ipeople.com/hubfs/IPeopleHealthcare_White.png)](https://www.ipeople.com/) - [Home](https://www.ipeople.com) - Products - [Professional Services](https://www.ipeople.com/products/meditech-services/) - [Downtime Product Suite](https://www.ipeople.com/products/suite) - [Benefits](https://www.ipeople.com/benefits) - [About](https://www.ipeople.com/about) - [Contact](https://www.ipeople.com/contact) - [IPeople Blog](https://blog.ipeople.com) March 14, 2022 # Using WITH=START as a Field Attribute WITH is a Field Attribute that determines when a field should be evaluated during a report.  WITH=START makes your report evaluate a field at the beginning (START) of the report.  This can make your report run more efficiently. If you have a user-defined field with a value that does not change throughout your report, then you can use the WITH=START Field Attribute to force your report to calculate that value only once.  Your report runs more efficiently since it only calculates the value once. Example: `DAT=DATE10` `LEN=10` `VAL=@.today` `WITH=START` Topics: [MEDITECH](https://blog.ipeople.com/topic/meditech), [Magic System](https://blog.ipeople.com/topic/magic-system), [NPR Report](https://blog.ipeople.com/topic/npr-report), [CS System](https://blog.ipeople.com/topic/cs-system) ## You Might Also Enjoy #### [MEDITECH CS Utility program to modify the length of multiple-field](https://blog.ipeople.com/meditech-cs-utility-program-to-modify-the-length-of-multiple-field) Meditech has a great utility program in C/S in NUR for modifying the length of a ... #### [Using the WITH footnote](https://blog.ipeople.com/using-the-with-footnote) WITH is a Footnote that allows you to specify which Subscript a user-defined (xx) field ... #### [Documenting NPR Field Attributes, Line Attributes and Footnotes](https://blog.ipeople.com/documenting-npr-field-attributes-line-attributes-and-footnotes) Entering documentation on Field Attributes, Line Attributes, and Footnotes can come in ... #### [Use NPR Report to write to the Windows Clipboard (MAGIC)](https://blog.ipeople.com/use-npr-report-to-write-to-the-windows-clipboard-magic) You can modify your report so that everything that prints is sent to your Windows ... #### [Use NPR Report to write to the Windows Clipboard (MEDITECH CS)](https://blog.ipeople.com/use-npr-report-to-write-to-the-windows-clipboard-meditech-cs) You can use the following steps to write data to your Windows clipboard from an NPR ... [![IPeopleHealthcare_FullColor](https://blog.ipeople.com/hubfs/IPeopleHealthcare_FullColor.png)](https://www.ipeople.com/) #### CONTACT - [+1-214-222-1125](tel:+1-214-222-1125) - [support@ipeople.com](mailto:support@ipeople.com) - [sales@ipeople.com](mailto:sales@ipeople.com) #### [JOIN OUR TEAM](https://ipeople.bamboohr.com/jobs/) #### FOLLOW - [![Facebook](https://blog.ipeople.com/hubfs/Facebook.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/IPeoplehealthcareTX) - [![Instagram](https://blog.ipeople.com/hubfs/Instagram.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/interfacepeople/) - [![Linkedin](https://blog.ipeople.com/hubfs/Linkedin.svg)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ipeople-healthcare) - [![Twitter](https://blog.ipeople.com/hubfs/Twitter.svg)](https://twitter.com/InterfacePeople) - [![email_icon](https://blog.ipeople.com/hubfs/email_icon.svg)](mailto:support@ipeople.com)   ![](https://blog.ipeople.com/hubfs/IPeople_2022_Aug/Images/Home/arrow-up.png)