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FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual
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FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual

by Geoff Coffey, Susan Prosser
August 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
799 pages
28h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9. Introduction to Calculations

Fields and layouts form the basis of every database: You can’t have a FileMaker database without them. Using just what you know so far, you can build all kinds of useful systems that store data, from an address list to a catalog of products.

But if you want to do the really useful stuff with your data—total an invoice, analyze trends, compare figures—you need specific tools. For those tasks, FileMaker provides calculation fields and a whole drawer full of functions that let you examine, compare, and combine field values. And calculations aren’t just limited to number-crunching tasks. You can use them to find out about the computer your database is running on, track who’s logged into the system, monitor their privileges, and then perform logical tests based on what you find. You’ll start by learning how FileMaker handles calculations, and then you’ll see how some common functions can take your database up to a new level of power.

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