Thanks for posting the solution – even returning an integer has moved me forward a bit.
I know you are saying your code is full of red herrings relating to your plugin, could you post some of it anyway? – I can’t workout what to do based on this;
stripped the parent name prefix off the subfields I was able to prepopulate the repeater with my custom table data
Tantalising. Sorry to be a pain asking for the codez !
Robbie