I am crating a database to compute student scores for a contest. I have most of it done, but cannot find a way to easily/ automatically calculate their rank. For instances the highest score is 1, next highest 2, etc. Any help would be great.

What is the structure of your tables? What happens where there is a tie? Do you need to store their ranking of only for display purposes. Any further details would help.

The table is set up with a variety of catagories that the scores are entered into. Then there is a field for the total score, which is calculated by adding the other together. I would like ties to show the same rank, with the next value being skipped. For instance a tie for 2nd place would show both records being 2, and no 3rd listed.

The rank would be used to sort records, assign awards, and be exported.

Are there multiple score sets and or multiple totals?

Each student has one total

What happens if two students have the same score?

See if the attached helps. I've made a few assumptions -- I used a repeating field just to keep it simple, c_totalScore just has to be the total of all your fields.

ranking.zip

I would like ties to show the same rank, with the next value being skipped.

ranking.fp7.zip

Oops.. I always seem to miss something don't i.