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     Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 9:48am
I am trying to write a report that describes the efficency of a process. I have a single field that stores the date/time of a bar code scan.
 
I would like to be able to calculate how long between scans and then use that number to graph an "Efficency".
 
Does anyone know how I would accomplish this?
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 12:04pm
If you set up your data groups and sorts so that the scans are consecutive, you should be able to compare the field in the current record vs the previous record using the Previous() function.
 
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Quote mpalecek Replybullet Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 1:47pm
Thanks, that worked out well, but now the next step in my report is not working. The reason I wanted this was to find the amount of time that passes between two scans.
 
Now that I have that I want to calculate averages for each day and week. However, i cannot summarize the field with Previous() function in it. Any ideas?
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 28 Feb 2008 at 2:42pm
You'll probably have to use shared variables to calculate the running total and the item count and then just divide them.
 
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