Data from a record w/o relationship

[danjacoby]

Use global fields for the prefs -- that way, they work with all records. Heck, they keep their values even if you delete all the records.

[Vaughan]

Except in a mulit-user environment global fields are a bugger to change!

I've been converted to a related file with one record to hold preferences. Dead easy.

[rivet]

I am working on a solution that has one record containing all pref for the database. (it has to be that instead of a separate file).

One of the prefs is a date that will have to be used in a calculation against all remaining records in the same file.

I want to avoid a relationship because I need the calculation result indexed. -Help