Sorting by Summary field data?

[Wickerman]

I'm keeping track of tournament results for a backgammon club in which each player receives points for achievement in our monthly tournaments, leading to a season champion at the end of the year.  So I have a PLAYERS table and an EVENTS table and then a join table in between, PERFORMANCE, that holds the results for a single player at a single tournament.

So, I have a list view that shows each player's results with a sub-summary part totaling their cumulative point total defined as a Summary field in the Performance table set to = Total of Points.  This all adds up and displays fine.  

. . . but after sorting the records by Player name to get the sub-summary, I would like to be able to sort them by Points total -- that's the point after all, to rank them from most to least points.  But I can't sort on a Summary field, right?   Am I modeling this wrong?  Or is there a technique I'm not seeing that will enable me to sort the results by this summary value?

[Steve Martino]

Without seeing your layout, or a sample file, it's a little hard to give you an exact answer.  I'm assuming a sub-summary layout, and not a regular layout in list view.

But you could make all parts sub summary, even the 'body' part.  Just make sure you sort on it.

You could add a sub-summary part sorted by points.  Then sort as needed.

You could have a dozen sub summary parts to create all different kinds of reports.  Only the sub summary parts that are sorted get shown.

 

Edited October 4, 2018 by Steve Martino