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    User input in a calculated field

    Hello, my name is Brandon and I am a Real Estate Appraising Trainee. I'm trying to set up a database for our comparable sales, but I couldnt figure this out. In my database I have a field called Total_Area , I also have fields called FF(Front Footage) and DEPTH. In my old Microsoft Works database I was able to have the Total_Area calculated (FF*DEPTH) if both fields were present, if both fields (FF and DEPTH) did not have any input, Total_Area would not be calculated. But I was always able to user input the total_area regardless of whether or not there was anything in the FF and DEPTH fields. In short, I was wondering if there is an expression or anything I could use to have my total_area field calculated but also a way to where I could override it with user input any time I need. Thanks in advance for any help!!

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    Re: User input in a calculated field

    Brandon:
    Yes and very easily so.
    You would have to have a field in your table to hold the the of the "Area"
    In the field rules->data entry: make this field user entered, then give it a default value: FF*depth. (Assuming you have a field called FF and another called Depth).

    P.S.
    Welcome to the board and good luck with the appraisal business. You might be smarter than most getting in the business at the bottom of the cycle. How do you make comps in a market like this, that's the real challenge.

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      Re: User input in a calculated field

      In A5, a calculated field is always a calculated field - no user input allowed.

      However, you could create OnWrote events for the two footage fields that would save the result IF both were non-zero and the area field was still zero. Something like this:
      Code:
      tc = table.current()
      IF tc.total_area = 0
           ttl_area = tc.ff * tc.depth
           IF ttl_area <> 0
                tc.total_area = ttl_area
           END IF
      END IF
      Since we are in the OnWrote event of a field, (a) it is not necessary to use tc.change_begin()/change_end() and (b) table.current() will always point to the correct table.

      Note that I purposely set this up so that it will NOT overwrite an existing value in the total_area field. You may want to change that - I'll leave that choice up to you. If you don't want that, just remove the outer IF / END IF lines.

      Sorry, I never use action scripting so I'm not sure how this would be done in action scripting other than as in-line xbasic - which is no different than xbasic except that in-line allows you to put other action script commands around the in-line stuff.

      EDIT: Or use Gabriel's method. That works, too. The difference is that a "Default Value" will only work the first time through in Enter mode. If someone comes back later to put in the width and depth measurements, the default will have already been set (presumably to zero) and they will have to enter the total manually.
      Last edited by CALocklin; 01-23-2009, 04:09 PM.

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