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Re: Date Fields

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In article <slrnlb2cck.1np6.t-usenet@ID-685.user.individual.de>, Martin
Ԥrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:11:27 +1300, Helpful Harry wrote:
> > > > Is the status unstored?
> > > > 
> > > > Does it calculate on empty fields?
> > > 
> > > Status calculation is stored. No status is calculated if either or both 
> > > date fields are empty.
> > 
> >  Calculation Fields that you want to automatically update should always
> >  be Unstored. That way Filemaker recalculates it every time the field is
> >  used (on-screen, printouts, other calculations, exports, etc.).
> 
> I prefer stored fields. They display faster, especially on list and
> table views. And they are much faster for find operations.

They will be, but the problem is that they often show the incorrect /
out-dated data. 

It's like setting an Excel spreadsheet to not recalculate automatically
and then changing some of the cell information, and then taking an hour
to figure out why the total is wrong. (In Excel, the recalculating
option was created during the days of slow computers, so you could
change all the cells you wanted, and then re-calculate in one go ...
but it's pretty irrelevant in these days of fast computers.)

Helpful Harry  :o)

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Date Fields jiriksova@gmail.com - 2013-12-17 13:03 -0800
  Re: Date Fields Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-17 21:27 +0000
    Re: Date Fields jiriksova@gmail.com - 2013-12-17 15:30 -0800
      Re: Date Fields Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-18 13:11 +1300
        Re: Date Fields jiriksova@gmail.com - 2013-12-17 17:26 -0800
        Re: Date Fields Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-18 05:24 +0000
          Re: Date Fields Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-18 19:24 +1300
            Re: Date Fields Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-18 06:55 +0000
              Re: Date Fields Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-19 18:48 +1300
                Re: Date Fields Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-19 07:16 +0000
                Re: Date Fields Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2013-12-19 09:30 -0800
                Re: Date Fields Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-19 18:26 +0000
                Re: Date Fields Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2013-12-19 11:45 -0800
                Re: Date Fields Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-19 20:05 +0000

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