Creating a count field

[gooboo123]

Hello everyone,

I am new to filemaker pro but improving everyday. I had a question about counting.

I have created a database about question and answers. There are hundreds of questions in the database. These questions belong to 10 different subjects.

The user can select the subject that he wants to take the test from

I have a count field which counts the total number of questions and when the user changes the subject it results in change in the count appropriately. That seems to be working fine.

I have given every question a unique number say 1 - 100.

But when the candidate changes the question; instead of the unique number I want it to display as

Question 1 of count X. then question 2 of count X.

I can generate the count X easily but how do i say that this is the 1st or the 2nd question in the subject.

Hope to hear soon.

It would be of great help

Thanks

[mr_vodka]

Get ( RecordNumber ) ? We have no idea if you are dealing with a list of records or using a portal so we cant give more specific advice.

[gooboo123]

Thanks for the advise. Get (RecordNumber) seems to give me the unique number.

I am using list of records.

In fact what I have is a Tab format review section. One tab is the question, second tab is the image associated with the question. Third tab is the answer to the question.

At the top of this tab format -- comes the Question ( ) of Count ( ) ---- Specialty

The count is appropriate count for that specialty but the question number is not.

For example

one specialty has a question number 30, 45, 50, 64, 99 and that specialty has only 5 questions

Then the display comes as Question 30 of 5, 45 of 5, 50 of 5 Instead of 1 of 5, 2 of 5, 3 of 5 .... so on

May be the way I am doing it is not what the specialists in filemaker pro would do it as am pretty new to filemaker pro

Thanks for the help.