Thanks Dan I have been doing lots of tests with cfdump etc. I have got the following code now for the conditionals, I think it is correctly setout now, but how do I check to see if a query value exists in the cfelseif conditional (I have a query called qholidays that checks dates in a table that must be taken into consideration in the cfelseif) Thank you

<!--- set var meetingdate as the value in the form --->
<cfset meetingDate = trim(form.meeting)>

<!---if form.meetingdate is empty and DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 2,3,4 (monday, tuesday or wednesday) add 2 days to today's date--->

<cfif not isDate(meetingDate) and DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 2,3,4>
<cfset meetingDate = dateAdd("d", 2, now())>

<!---if form.meetingdate is empty and DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 1 sunday and monday is not a value in qholidays add 1 day to today's date--->

<cfelseif DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 1>
<cfset meetingDate = dateAdd("d", 1, now())>

<!---if form.meetingdate is empty and DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 5 thursday and monday is not a value in qholidays add 4 days to today's date--->

<cfelseif DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 5>

<cfset meetingDate = dateAdd("d", 4, now())>

<!---if form.meetingdate is empty and DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 6 (friday) and monday is not a value in qholidays add 3 days to today's date--->

<cfelseif DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 6>
<cfset meetingDate = dateAdd("d", 3, now())>

<!-- otherwise set var meetingdate as the value in the form--->

<cfelse>
<cfset meetingDate = trim(form.meeting)>

</cfif>

I changed the code to get rid of anything other than DayOfWeek values but it still adds two days to today's date when today is a wednesday, I don't see where this could happen in the code, why is this happening?

<!--- set var meetingdate as a string --->

<cfset meetingDate = "testvalue">

<!---if DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 2,3 (monday, tuesday) add 2 days to today's date--->

<cfif  DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 2 OR 3>
<cfset meetingDate = dateAdd("d", 2, now())>

<!---if DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 1 sunday add 1 day to today's date--->

<cfelseif DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 1>
<cfset meetingDate = dateAdd("d", 1, now())>

<!---if DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 5 thursday add 4 days to today's date--->

<cfelseif DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 5>
<cfset meetingDate = dateAdd("d", 4, now())>

<!---if DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 6 (friday) add 3 days to today's date--->

<cfelseif DayOfWeek(Now()) eq 6>
<cfset meetingDate = dateAdd("d", 3, now())>

<!-- otherwise set var meetingdate as a different string--->
<cfelse>
<cfset meetingDate = "testvalueelse">

</cfif>
<cfoutput>#meetingdate#</cfoutput>