I really should have explained it a bit better. I have three comps that make one image across 3 screens. I was trying to link the base layers of the outside screens to the base layer of the centre screen so that as the centre screen panned up the outer screens would follow. I managed to get it to work by adding an offset to the end of the expression, but I was wondering if there was a slightly more elegant way of doing it without having to do the basic maths.
the expression that i used was:
comp name.(“layer name”).transform.position-[xoffset,yoffset]
cheers
peter