Jack or Alice or Marshall or other egroup guru: Can any of you help explain some ebase structure? I'm working on a major customization of the membership system, and I find myself wading through calcs and scripts that I don't completely understand... The FIND fields (FIND $ YTD, etc.) draw their values from two distinct places. The "Replace Curr Find Field Values" script does a copy/paste from the MEM: fields in the Summary file. The "Replace All ... Values" script, on the other hand, uses the SUM: fields from the Names file as the target of a self join lookup. Both of these consist of groups of unstored calcs drawing on data from the Paymnts file. I don't understand why both are needed. Why not simply use one or the other? I know unstored calcs take up no data space on disk, but it makes for double the work when modifications are needed. I'm probably missing something. Thanks for your help, Matthew Scholtz Evaluator and MIS Coordinator Health Initiatives for Youth San Francisco, CA
