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Script Calculation error

Script Calculation error

Script Calculation error

(OP)
To be clear, the error is mine, I know that much, I just cannot put my finger on it.

The story:

We have a semi-automated fuelpump, which gives us some basic data about usage.
From that, I get a list of vehicles, their owner, milage and how much fuel they took and when.
I made some forms for the end-users to display a list summarized by NR (vehicleNR) or owner etc.
One form, the 'Per vehicleNR', the list is in a Portal, where the fuelstops are sorted descending.

I use a script to modify table data as I cannot retain data, because of the way the fuelpump works, it’s all or nothing, so on each check,every so many days or weeks, I purge the database and read the lot in again by script. That import works fine, no issues there.
So far, so good…

I now need to calculate the average (AV consumption of each vehicule between 2 fuelstops.
Easy as pie in Excel, but I am stuck in Filemaker with this.
Below is the script.

The first record gets a ’0” in AV, that is fine.
The problem is, after that, I get ’?’ until the next NR is reached and then they all become ’X’.
I know about the ’X’, but I wonder where my mistake is that I get a ’?’ as result.
All fields are numbers except NR, which is Text (the licenseplate).


Go to Layout [ “ListTBPV” (TBPV) ]
View As [ View as Table ]
Sort Records [ Specified Sort Order: TBPV::NR; ascending ] [ Restore; No dialog ]
#
#
Go to Record/Request/Page [ First ]
Loop
#
Set Field [ TBPV::AV; If ( Get(RecordNumber) = 1;0; If ( TBPV::NR = GetNthRecord ( TBPV::NR; +1); TBPV::Quantity/((TBPV::KM-(GetNthRecord ( TBPV::KM; -1)))/100);"X")) ]
#
Go to Record/Request/Page [ Next; Exit after last ]
End Loop


The idea is: take the current records mileage, deduct the previous (except the first) which gives me the the number of KM driven since the last fuelstop. I alread y have the Quantity, so I divide Quantity by the result and by 100, to get the x L/100KM

Does anyone know where my blunder is?
Thanks!

Marc
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RE: Script Calculation error

(OP)
Duh, I found my own mistake, a Copy & Paste mistake:
GetNthRecord ( TBPV::NR; +1)
Has to be
GetNthRecord ( TBPV::NR; Get(RecordNumber)+ 1)

Marc
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