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How to use variable to calculate a percentage from the sum

edited November 2005 in General
Hi,
I tried many different ways to use a variable to calculate the percentage of
a record from the sum of that column but can't get it to work. Let's say I
have a list of travel expenses, I wanted to find out the percentage for each
of them.

$50 33% ($50/150)
$40 27% ($40/150)
$60 40% ($60/150)
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$150 (group footer)

I also tried the look ahead option and still not giving me the incorrect
result. It's returning the same value for all record which is 40% in this
case, Thanks.

Comments

  • edited November 2005
    Harry wrote:



    first you have to have a twopass report.
    At the end of the first pass you should store the values of the
    calculated sum's to some var's (OnEndFirstPass/mySummary). In the
    second pass the values are calculated; the percentage values with the
    stored totals of the first pass (myVar :=
    (100/mySummary)*CurrValueField)....


    HIH
    ralf
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