How to get a "Sum=Concat" of related text fields??

[vasci]

I have a one->many relation.

I want to have a calculated text field in my "main file" that is a concatenation of the values of a text field in the related records.

If the fields were numbers this would be like the "Sum" aggregation function.

Possible?? I am tearing my hair out on this one.

One may be wondering why I want to do this. The text field of interest in the many file is calculated by an custom external based on the contents of the other fields in the same record.

This calculated field from all the related records needs to be concatenated together into one field in the one file, which will finally be the basis for an e-mail.

[ August 13, 2001: Message edited by: vasci ]

[Moon]

Don't know a simple way in native FileMaker, but Troi Text plugin makes this a snap. Well documented and easy to implement.

[vasci]

Thanks for the tip. I managed to get around it by using a script on the one file to concatenate the field from the related records in the many file.

[vasci]

Thanks for the tip. I managed to get around it by using a script on the one file to concatenate the field from the related records in the many file.