Can I total a custom field?: WSN Support

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Can I total a custom field?

wizard
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Posted 02/23/05 - 05:38 PM:	#1
If I have a custom link field and would like to show a total for all links that have a value for this field how would I do this? It is a numeric field ie link1 has value for custom field of 20 link2 has value for custom field of 10 link3 has value for custom field of 0 link4 has value for custom field of 5 custom field total 35 how could I get the total to show I havent been able to find an answer in knowledgebase

Paul
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Posted 02/24/05 - 09:03 PM:	#2
That depends on what the links are. How is it supposed to know which values you want totaled? All of them on your whole site? A category? A page from a category? A toplist? Anyhow, any solution for this probably wouldn't be scalable -- I expect it'd become very slow with large numbers of links.
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