serverformulafill

[James Rea]

> All I want to do is fill the field with 0 or blank.  All we do during 
> the day is put numbers in this field from 1 to maybe 50, then
throughout 
> the day we run a procedure to total the current numbers in the field.  
> At the end of each day I want to activate the procedure and the 
> serverformulafill to clear-out all the numbers.  We typically have 
> several 100 records to change.  The regular formula fill is just way
to 
> slow.

I wonder if this is the best approach to this problem. Serverformulafill
will be faster than a regular formula fill, but still the next morning
every user is going to have to wait longer for all of these changed
records to sync to each client.

If all you care about is the total I think a better approach would be to
set up a server variable to keep the total. Keep incrementing the value
through the day, then set it back to zero at the end of each day.

Jim Rea
President, ProVUE Development

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