Sometimes I feel like someone else is taking over my database? (FM9 Windows).

How do others stop activity when it is no longer needed. For example, if I use a summary field to get a total FM will keep updating this afterwards in case I need it again. This means that I keep seeing the dreaded hourglass.

In FM6 I dealt with this by adding a Close File script step to force it to stop, but this I must not be the first with this problem? Thanks for a response. Tony.

Edited January 2, 200818 yr by Guest

Summary fields only needs to get shown in special layouts for subsummary fields, the difference from a spreadsheet is that you usually run a script to get summarized data shown. If however beyond vanity the data is crucial to show each time a new record is shown, must it be made by a lookup next lower, but there is price to pay. If a record isn't in the sequence any more isn't the summary updated accordingly.

--sd