GetSummary() vs. summary field

[uvic_coop]

Say a report contains three columns: A, B and Total. To display subsummary and grand summary values for A and B, I would of course declare summary fields for both.

But for Total, is it more efficient to:

1) use GetSummary() calculations (ie adding together summary, subsummary and grand summary fields for A and :;

or 2) declare first a calculation field (total = field A + field : and then a summary field (summarizing "total")?

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by uvic_coop:

Say a report contains three columns: A, B and Total. To display subsummary and grand summary values for A and B, I would of course declare summary fields for both.

But for Total, is it more efficient to:

1) use GetSummary() calculations (ie adding together summary, subsummary and grand summary fields for A and :;

or 2) declare first a calculation field (total = field A + field : and then a summary field (summarizing "total")?

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Either way works, but the second way requires more fields than the 1st option.

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Kurt Knippel

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