Percentage in Report Subsummaries without Get(Summary)

[Jannah]

So here's my other question: I have a report that shows a subsummary with percentage of total count of names listed, utilizing Get(summary). I've read that this tremendously slows down fm due to calculations and is unreliable. Is this true? What is a better way to do the percentage?

Thanks for your help.

Jannah

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[BobWeaver]

GetSummary() is no ball of fire, but it depends on how big your file is, and how big you expect it to get. If it is acceptably fast now, then leave it as is. By the time the file gets so big that runs too slow, Filemaker version 7 will be out and you can buy a 2GHz computer. I'm only partly joking.

In larger databases, I have avoided some of the inefficiency of GetSummary() by using it in the Replace command inside a script which calculates and sets another field to the desired summary value. That way, it only updates (and slows down the system) when you click a button.