On my lay-out, I want a field which represents the number of found records,

so when people who are browsing know at which record they are (current record, that is possible, I know) and how many records there are left to do.

It's the same as in the status-area, I know, but when other people are using my database, I wanna get rid of the status area.

Have a look at the Filemaker Help:

==> Status Functions ==> Status(CurrentRecordCount) and Status(CurrentRecordNumber)

Perfect!

CurrentFoundCount does the job!

Having a look at it later it seems not to be working,

the filemaker help says it should give you the number of found records, it did, but now I gave FM antoher find-request, it shows the old number of found records, and that's not what I want

Status calculations must be unstored or they won't update automatically. Set the storage options to 'Do not store calculation results'.

That's it,

thanks!