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Introducing calculations

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Introducing calculations

The three core areas of any successful database application are building the proper architecture, which we've discussed when we built the tables and fields, and the next is allowing users to input data effectively, which we discussed when we talk about developing layouts and then finally, we've also touched on the third important core value of a database, and that's allowing users to output in the form of printing and exporting. But now outputting isn't specific just to reporting or being able to print out or export data, output also means that you're putting certain data into a system and then it's been aggregated in spitting out new data that you didn't have before, and that's the role of calculation fields and the calculation engine inside the FileMaker database. These are also considered output. A calculation allows you to drive information from values or data. If you're defining the calculation in FileMaker, you're using either fields or data that you're feeding into the…

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