Andrus Moor,

Thank you so much for your splendid idea. I was beginning to go in that direction (what was left after all?) but you saved me MANY hours, so thank you very much.

My routine is called AM_total, in recognition of its source.

David

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>>I created a Sales Commission Report using VFP's Report Designer.
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>>It has 5 breaks (bands), major to minor: salesman, date, order#, shipment#, detail line.
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>>I feed the report a single cursor (not a requirement, just seems to be the way to do it) which has loads of data at the detail level and some data (including numeric values) at the group (shipment#, order#) level.
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>>Some of the expressions I print in report footers are not sums of detail amounts but rather amounts that belong to break level data. F'r instance, the cursor has a column that is a shipment amount and I display that for the first time in the shipment# footer band.
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>>It is easy enough to display this at the Shipment# level, but when I go to SUM it for the next level, the Order# level, it is all screwed up, as it seems to add it up once for every detail line, not once per shipment, even though it is a figure that does not belong to the detail level.
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>>If I have been clear, what do I do to correctly calculate and display a SUM of non-detail numbers?
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>1. Add a variable named r_Sum to report/variables:
> Initital value 0
> Value to store 0
> Calculate Sum
> Reset at End of report
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>2. In group footer, add a field and use
> total( , 'r_sum' )
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>
>func TOTAL
>PARAMETER subTot, prmVARIABLE
>store eval(m.prmVARIABLE) + m.subTot to (m.prmVARIABLE)
>RETURN ''