Counting Breakfields

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by lgonzales:

I need to count breakfields. I may be missing something but my summary fields are adding all of the records in the database. Any help will be appreciated.

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Summary fields are pretty dumb and they need to be told exactly what to count.

The way to tell them is to do one of the following:

Place then in a sub-summary part of a printed layout which is sorted by the break field. They will then display the correct counts of that sub-summary group.

The other way is to setup calculated fields and use the GetSummary function. Using the summary field and the break field as parameters.

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Kurt Knippel

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[lgonzales]

I need to count breakfields. I may be missing something but my summary fields are adding all of the records in the database. Any help will be appreciated.

[Vaughan]

Also, if you don't want to summarise the whole database, perform a find that gets the records you *do* want to work with, then generate the summary.