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Creating Summary Counter Fields in FileMaker Pro

We need to have several counter fields (in effect, summaries) whose values will remain constant, regardless of the found set. Using global fields does not help, because they are not global for all users; so if one user makes a change that affects a counter, no one else will see it.
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Global variables ($$var) are user specific, but table fields set as global are stored at the server level and should be global for everybody.
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Thanks, I'll look at this tomorrow morning withi my partner.
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Relating a table to itself!  Creative.  In our testing, looks very promising but have not fully implemented it.  Very busy today; will check on Monday.
Initial testing looks good.  Our server went down yesterday, but hopefully will award points by end of week.
Again, we are buried do to server crashing twice in the past 10 days.  Will look at it soon.
server crashing? not caused by fm server I guess...
Sorry to be so slow with this one; we got bogged down with bigger issues including two server crashes.  Ok now though.