Newbie: ExternAPI Question...

[loughin]

Just got FMP5 DevEdition and browsed the API for Eternal Plug Ins. I was hoping to be able to write summarization functions that would let me process table fields over a whole 'found set' and things like that. I don't see anything remotely like this. (i.e. no record navigation features or ability to get meta data, etc.) I suppose I could do an end run by using ODBC calls, but that's a back door I'd prefer not to open in a little plug in!!! Any help would be welcome.