Touring the calculation dialog window

- [Narrator] The first step in understanding…calculations and how to write them is getting…familiar with the calculation dialogue window.…This is where you write them.…The calculation dialogue appears in a…wide variety of places within File Make Pro…and it's really one of the primary areas…where actual programming comes in to play.…I'm going to show you the mechanics…of the calculation dialogue,…so that later you'll have the understanding…needed to write some initial formulas.…But the first place I'll go to invoke the calculation…dialogue is through creating a calculation field.…So, I'm just going to go in to manage database…and just create a temporary field here…and choose the type of calculation.…

When I hit create, we'll see that the specified…calculation dialogue window appears.…The calculation dialogue is broken up in to three sections.…The column on the left hand side is called the fields pane.…This is where you can pick any field…that's defined inside your custom app.…You also have the ability to sort them…