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- From: ratcliff@ucsd.edu (John Ratcliff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: FM Pro Help
- Message-ID: <ratcliff-210193143155@mokajava.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:58:31 GMT
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- I am trying to summarize info in an Invoice/Purchase order type
- format. Repeating fields are nice but seem very limited.
- Maybe I am asking too much of a non relational DB.
-
- Does anybody have any recommendations for summarizing items
- on an Invoice. That is , how do you find all items of a certain
- type code in one repeating field and total the dollar amounts
- from another repeating field.
-
- To try and make it clearer suppose each record looks like this:
-
- Item Description Type Code Amount
- 1 Acme Road Runner Trap AB123 $55.00
- 2 10 D Nails AB121 $ 1.01
- 3 2 by 4 10 ft AX432 $ 4.89
- 4 Chicken Wire AB123 $ 2.05
-
- How do I get a dollar total across multiple records of this
- type with possibly Multiple Type Codes in one record.
- Sub Summaries only pick up the first occurence in repeating fields.
- Unfortunately the number of possible type codes is large and it
- would be difficult to predict which ones will be entered.
- So some sort of dynamic Type Code summarizing is needed.
-
- ie: Type Code Grand Total
- AB121 $45.56
- AB123 $34.45
- AB234 $ 3.98
- AX432 $ 5.50
-
- Thanks for any help.
- John Ratcliffe UCSD
- ratcliff@ucsd.edu
-