Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!batcomputer!engst From: engst@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Filemaker + Keywords: MAC Message-ID: <5322@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 28 Jun 88 13:18:42 GMT References: <2055@alliant.Alliant.COM> Reply-To: engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 18 I recently tried setting up a fairly simple database in Filemaker + to keep track of an inventory. I had number fields for each item to track and summary fields to keep track of how many had been used total. But, I wanted to have it tell me how many items were left in the stockroom, so I asked it to subtract the total from an original number. It flat out refused, and I got so irritated that it couldn't do this that I stopped working on Filemaker + entirely for a while. Essentially, I want to sum a field for a number of records then subtract that sum from an original value. Doesn't sound that difficult to me. Is there an easy way to do this in Filemaker or can't it do it? I think I can do the same thing in Excel quite easily but Filemaker is so much nicer to use for data entry and sorting. Any ideas? Thanks ... Adam -- Adam C. Engst engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu pv9y@cornella.bitnet "If it's not interactive, it's not fun."