Creating and Using a Summary Field

Description

The Summary Genie assists you in creating calculated fields that summarize various aspects of a field over a group of records or over the whole table. The Summary Genie will summarize over the child records for a given parent record if you select a field or expression based on a child record. It will summarize over the whole table if you select a field or expression based on a parent record. The following functions are supported:

Summary Functions

  • Total

    Total of a group of number values.

  • Average

    Average of a group of number values.

  • Count

    Count of records for a group of records.

  • Minimum value

    Minimum character or number value for a group of records.

  • Maximum value

    Maximum character or number value for a group of records.

Other functions

  • Count duplicates

    A summary function that returns the number of Duplicate records for the expression evaluated for a group of records.

  • First in group

    A summary function that returns the First value of the expression evaluated for a group of records.

  • Last in group

    A summary function that returns the Last value of the expression evaluated for a group of records.

  • Standard deviation

    Returns the Standard Deviation of the field's expression evaluated for a group of records.

  • Standard deviation for population

    Returns the Population Standard Deviation of the field's expression evaluated for a group of records.

  • Variance

    Returns the Variance of the field's expression evaluated for a group of records.

  • Variance for population

    Returns the Population Variance of the field's expression evaluated for a group of records.

  1. Click the following to display a list of table fields.

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  2. Click the Genie button so that it is depressed.

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  3. Drag a field with a number value, such Invoice_Items->Extension onto the form.

  4. Click the Total of the field option button when the Summary Field Genie appears.

  5. Click Finish.

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