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Hello, I'm trying to determine the best way to set up a running calculation that uses previous records as the base. Imagine, for example, 4 players play a game for the first time. The base score all players start with is 5000. During that game, Player 1 gains 100, Player 2 gains 50, Player 3...

Hello, I have - a series of join files for interrelated databases (using FM 5.5). Here's the situation. One of the fields is an 'average' which averages all the occurences that meet a certain criteria (specifically, the person's name and the game name). Consequently, all the occurences for...

Hello, I have a slew of calculation fields in one of my files. However, 90% of them are calculations of related fields, and -- as far as I know -- they cannot be indexed. Consequently, the page loads VERY slowly. Is there any other way in Filemaker 5.5 to make speed up the calculation field...

I had thought I'd understood this, but it appears it won't do what I want this to do. Let's say I have two files - Players and Games, there's a join table called PlayerGames. I have a portal in Players that lists all the games that player has played; and a portal in Games that lists all the...

Hello, I'm working on finalizing my database -- I've come a long way! Regrettably, the wall I've recently hit is a pretty big one. A lot of my calculations in one file take AGONIZINGLY long to compute. I even tried to store them, but I'm unable to do so. Does anyone have any ideas about how...

I need some help with subtotaling information in portals – let me explain specifically: I have a file called “Players” and another called “Games.” There also another file called “Sessions” – there are join files for PlayerSessionJoin and GameSessionJoin. Essentially, on portals in sessions...

Assuming that I have a record with a portal. In the portal are values from 5 users -- their names and their scores (which means, 5 record in the join table). Is there a way to have the values RANKED - i.e., I'd like to have another field; calculation, I assume, that would 'rank' the values in...

Sigh...I feel like I've been through the wringer! I am using FM Pro 5.5 -- have been trying to get my head around this for a while, and I'm really just beaten down I am essentially converting over a massive (40mb) Excel spreadsheet into database form. This database contains all the information...

I’m in the process of converting over a large (40mb) Excel spreadsheet into a FM database. This is the data for my boardgaming group and all related stats. I found – online – this program (http://www.goldraven.com/GameTracker/GT.html). However (1) it hasn’t been updated in 3-5 years; (2) it’s...

Hello, It's been a few years since I've used Filemaker -- I've been doing a lot more work in Excel...Nonetheless, I have a couple of questions as I convert my spreadsheet into a database... 1. Is there any way, within filemaker, to 'rank' results in fields (especially repeating fields). For...