Hello,

How do I get a portal calculation to work. I need to get a sum from a field in a portal and place that number in a field outside of the portal.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Your calculation field needs to be in your parent table (where your portal TO is your related child table), and the calculation itself would just be:

Sum(RelatedTable::RelatedField)

~Genx

How do you calculate multiple lines? Your solution only works for the 1st portal line.

attached is my working file.

any help would be great.

What I am trying to do is take the payments applied to the job and subtract the payments from the estimate.

Thanks

JobTracking.fp7.zip

Edited March 30, 200619 yr by Guest

...Didn't i say put it in the parent table?

Have a look at the attached file and note the location of the field cBalance.

~Genx

JobTracking_.zip

Thanks

I am still learning

No problems...

I can't believe i just did that... No problem, hehehe, i almost sound like a bogan .

I'm learning as well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan

Is it Crocodile Dundee who have worn out "no worries" or???

...Didn't i say put it in the parent table?

However, if you're going to put such a calc' in more than one related table, could this add considerably to the muddle:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/159548/

...it's not the first time I encounter later arrivals being confused with these matters - so putting extra matters into a pour minds ongoing struggle with concepts is evil, to some extend.

--sd

Wikipedia cracks me up... hehehe, no, no worries is good, it seems to be more of a kiwi (new zealand) thing though. Then again so is "cheers". Oh well.

~Genx