November 4, 200916 yr I'm brand spanking new at FM and working on my first app which is to track my budget and expenses. My db has two tables: Budget and Transactions. In the Budget table I have the following fields: Account Name; Account Type; Budgeted Amount; Current Balance; Difference; Budget Month In the Transactions table I have the following fields: Date; Description; Comment; Check Number; Amount; From Account; From Account Type; To Account; To Account Type What I want to do is increment or decrement the Budget::Current Balance field for given Accounts when I enter a transaction. In other words, I'll enter a transaction, say for 15 dollars, from the Cash account to the Eating Out account. In the Budget table, I want the current balance for Cash decremented by 15 dollars and the current balance for Eating Out incremented by 15 dollars. I guess I need to do this by a script, but I'm not sure. And if so, would I need to build some relationships between the two tables? Currently, the tables are related as follows: Budget::Account Name -> Transactions::From Account Budget 2::Account Name -> Transactions::To Account I do this so that I can automatically enter From Account Type and To Account Type in the transactions table. I use these for various reports. I hope I've made this clear. I'm not too sure about the terminology yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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