Hi there, @paul36… I don’t understand most of what is going on in your post, but you are almost certainly going about this task the wrong way. If you are trying to show the names of projects created by a particular user (the current user?) in a repeating group, you simply need the repeating group to have a data source of a search for projects with a constraint on the search where the Created by field equals the particular user. Then, a text element in the repeating group would display the current cell’s project’s name.
If you then want the user to be able to click on a project’s name and go to a page where they can edit the project, you would do that by sending the current cell’s project to the edit page.
Hope this helps.
Best…
Mike