I am looking for a method to decide if a special record in a hit list needs a leading (or trailing) sub-summary line. The reason is that I want to group that records by a special field content, like:

Country A

City 1

City 2

Country B

City 1

City 2

City 3

Country 3

City 1

and so on. If it comes to a page break, the new page also needs to start with a headline, like:

Country 3

City 2

City 3

...

Is there any way to compare the field content of te current record with the record listed before? If they are different a subline would have to be created.

Please excuse my poor English.

Do you want to do it on web page? With CDML you have increased handling options for results. I do not fully understand what you want to achieve, but with additional If...Else IF....Endif from CDML all sort of tricks are possible in browser.

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with additional If...Else IF....Endif from CDML all sort of tricks are possible in browser.

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Thank you for your answer. Prague always was a friend to Nuremberg :-)

Of course I understand that I have to use a structure like

[Record]

[FMP-If:*]

<BR>[FMP-Field:Country]<BR>

[/FMP-If]

[FMP-Field:City]<BR>

[/Record]

But I have no Idea what expression to use in the IF statement instead of the asterisk.

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Originally posted by Rainer:

Thank you for your answer. Prague always was a friend to Nuremberg :-)

Of course I understand that I have to use a structure like

[Record]

[FMP-If:*]

<BR>[FMP-Field:Country]<BR>

[/FMP-If]

[FMP-Field:City]<BR>

[/Record]

But I have no Idea what expression to use in the IF statement instead of the asterisk.

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Rainer, send me the bits, which are connected, the db with few records and your HTML page and I will do some homework over weekend... [email protected]

Anatoli

That's very kind of you, Anatoli. In the meantime I found a solution as follows:

For deciding if a record is the first one in a sub-summary group, I have FileMaker computing a GetSummary calculation (you need 3 fields for this!). The value of this summary field can now be compared against the CurrentRecordNumber. If they are equal, that record is the first one in the group:

[Record]

[FMP-If:CurrentRecordNumber.eq.Field:firstOne]

[FMP-Field:Country]

[/FMP-If]

[FMP-Field:City]

[/Record]

On a second page there are two cases:

1) The first record on that page starts a new group. In this case a headline is generated.

2) The old group continues on that page. In this case I use the opposite statement outside the [FMP-Record] bracket:

[FMP-If:CurrentRecordNumber.neq.Field:firstOne]

[FMP-Field:Country]

[/FMP-If]

[Record]

[FMP-If:CurrentRecordNumber.eq.Field:firstOne]

[FMP-Field:Country]

[/FMP-If]

[FMP-Field:City]

[/Record]

Works fine so far!

I had something like that in mind.

I am glad I've triggered your creativity :-)

You can do great things with HTML/CDML conditions! I am using that often.

Have fun! Anatoli

I am trying to replicate what Ranier did in this solution so that I can create a sub-summary looking report for a results page.

I want to show the title of each class we offer GROUPED under the category for the class.

-- I made a field in my database called COUNTER that is set to equal 1.

-- I made a summary field called SUMofCOUNTER that is a total of COUNTER (since I need a summary field in order to use the GetSummary function.

-- I set up a field called GROUPEDSUMMARY that is equal to GetSummary( SumOfCounter ,MajorCategory )

-- I set up a field called RECORDNUMBER that is equal to Status(CurrentRecordNumber)

When I set up a layout in FileMaker to see how this will all calculate, I see that in the first of the five categories, sixteen titles are found, the RECORDNUMBER function shows up as numbering from 1 thru 16. And the GROUPEDSUMMARY field =16

Then the next category begins and it has two titles in it .

GROUPEDSUMMARY field =2

but the RECORDNUMBER function keeps numbering from 17 thru 18

and this continues as the categories keep coming up.

With this in mind, I can't figure out how Ranier could make the following work out:

"For deciding if a record is the first one in a sub-summary group, I have FileMaker computing a GetSummary calculation (you need 3 fields for this!). The value of this summary field can now be compared against the CurrentRecordNumber. If they are equal, that record is the first one in the group:

[Record]

[FMP-If:CurrentRecordNumber.eq.Field:firstOne]

[FMP-Field:Country]

[/FMP-If]

[FMP-Field:City]

[/Record]"

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Help?

You just need to check the "Running Total" checkbox for the summary field.