I am a beginner and have a simple application that has ten catagories that need to be ranked. How would I go about ranking these catagories from 1 to 10.

Hi,

Not sure I fully understand but maybe this will help...

Have your catagory field

Then the ranking field as a calculation...

Ranking =

Case( CatagoryField = Catagory1, "1", CatagoryField = Catagory2, "2", CatagoryField = Catagory3, "3", and so on...)

Ed.

I probably didn't explain this very good. I have 10 catagories that people put ratings in. Then I have a summary of each of the 10 catagories, I want to then rank these catagories from 1 to 10 so I know which one is most important. The other small problem is that some could have the same rating and I would still like those to be ranked maybe with equal rating and maybe not, I am not sure.

Here is an example of the 10 catagories

Tot Rank or Rank

CatA 7.8 4 5

CatB 8.3 1 1

CatC 7.7 5 7

catD 6.8 7 9

CatE 7.9 3 4

CatF 8.1 2 2

CatG 8.1 2 3

CatH 7.7 5 6

CatI 5.5 8 10

CatJ 6.9 6 8

So that the results could be calculated to rank the results of the catagories in either of the two ways

I probably didn't explain this very good. I have 10 catagories that people put ratings in. Then I have a summary of each of the 10 catagories, I want to then rank these catagories from 1 to 10 so I know which one is most important. The other small problem is that some could have the same rating and I would still like those to be ranked maybe with equal rating and maybe not, I am not sure.

Here is an example of the 10 catagories

Tot Rank or Rank

CatA 7.8 4 5

CatB 8.3 1 1

CatC 7.7 5 7

catD 6.8 7 9

CatE 7.9 3 4

CatF 8.1 2 2

CatG 8.1 2 3

CatH 7.7 5 6

CatI 5.5 8 10

CatJ 6.9 6 8

So that the results could be calculated to rank the results of the catagories in either of the two ways

OK,

Have a global field g_Rank

Do a sort descending on the summary field

then run this script

Set Field[g_Rank, "1"]

Go to Record[First]

Set Field[Rank, g_Rank]

Set Field[g_Rang, g_Rank + 1]

Loop

Go to Record[Next, exit after last]

Set Field[Rank, g_Rank]

Set Field[g_Rang, g_Rank + 1]

End Loop

I have not tested this so may need tweaking slightly.

This will set identical summaried to different ranks though in your example CatF would be 2, CatG would be 3.

Ed.