Calculation from Portal (text)

[Alden Dale]

Hello,

I have a portal with data from another db. One of the fields is a text field that will have one of three text values (Completed, In Progress, or Pending). What calculation would allow me to determine if all the related fields in the portal contained the "Completed" entry?

Sorry if this is such a simple question. I am a beginner though, so I need help with things like this.

[-Queue-]

Two ways I can easily think of:

One would be to create a calculation field in the related table equal to textfield = "completed", then a calculation in the parent table of Sum(rel::calc) = Count(rel::calc) to determine if every related record has 1 in the calc field. This will give 1 if true and zero if false.

Another way would be to create a value list based on the related text field. Then create a calculation field of PatternCount( "

[Alden Dale]

-Queue-,

I went with the first way, and its working great. Thanks for the help!