Use Calculator?

[Mary Office Manager]

You know how you can click an icon and click on a calendar, is there a feature in File Maker where you can use a calculator? Or do you have to build one from scratch using scripts? What the best and easiest way to handle it? I log in receipts and sometimes I have to calculate out certain line items from the total receipt. Please advise.

[mr_vodka]

There is nothing native in FM to bring up the calculator. Geez we barely just got the popup calendar feature. -)

You may be able to bring up the windows calculator with some VB script or you can try and take a look at this to possibly incorporate into your solution.

calculator demo

[comment]

You can define your field to auto-enter (replacing existing value) a calculation =

Evaluate ( Yourfield )

This will enable you to enter formulae like "5+8+12" or "3*15" etc. and have them calculated on exiting the field.