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64 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
4. Select an option, if applicable, for the summary type.
Options change according to the summary type you select in the previous step.
5. Select an option, if applicable, for summarizing a repeating field.
Minimum Finding the lowest number, or the earliest date, time, or timestamp for a field
Maximum Finding the highest number, or the latest date, time, or timestamp for a field
Standard Deviation of Finding how widely the values in a field differ from each other. This option calculates the
standard deviation from the mean of the values in a field. (The formula is n-1 weighted,
following the normal standard deviation.)
Fraction of Total of Calculating the ratio of the value in the field to the total of all the values in that field. For
example, find what fraction of total sales can be attributed to each salesperson.
For this summary type Select To
Total of Running total Show the cumulative total for the current and all
previous records. To restart the running total for each
sorted group, also select Restart summary for each
sorted group. Then, from the fields list, select the
field that the sort will be restarted from.
Average of Weighted average. In the list of fields that
appears, select the field that contains the
weight factor
Determine the average in one field based on a value
in another field that’s used as a weight factor
Count of Running count Show the cumulative count of the current and all
previous records. To restart the running count for
each sorted group, also select Restart summary for
each sorted group. Then, from the fields list, select
the field that the sort will be restarted from.
Standard Deviation of by population Calculate population standard deviation, where the
formula is n-weighted
Fraction of Total of Subtotaled. In the list of fields that
appears, select a field to group by. (When
you return to Browse mode, sort by this
field to calculate the value correctly.)
Calculate a fraction of the total based only on a
group of records
Select To
All together Calculate a single summary value for all repetitions in the field
Individually Calculate a summary value for each repetition
Select this type of
summary To summarize values in a field in the found set of records by
Choose a
summary type
Choose the field
you want to
group by
Select an
option for the
summary type
Select an option for summarizing repetitionsRestart the
total or count