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Calculations to the Max

In addition to the simple CalcText component discussed earlier, the Rave Designer includes three components for handling more complex situations: CalcTotal, CalcController, and CalcOp.
CalcTotal

The CalcTotal is a non-visual version of the CalcText component. When this component is printed, its value is typically stored in a project parameter (defined by the DestParam property) and formatted according to the DisplayFormat property. It can be useful when you're performing totaling calculations that will be used by other calculations before being printed. If the value of the CalcTotal will only be used by other calculation components, such as CalcOp, you should leave the DestParam property blank.

CalcController

CalcController is a non-visual component that acts as a controller for CalcText and CalcTotal components through their Controller properties. When the controller component is printed, it signals all calculation components that it controls to perform their operation. This process allows a report to recalculate totals on group bands, detail bands, or whole pages depending upon the location of the CalcController component.
The CalcController component can also initialize a CalcText or CalcTotal component to a specific value (through the InitCalcVar, InitDataField, and InitValue properties). The CalcController component will initialize values only if it is used in the Initializer property of CalcText or CalcTotal components.

CalcOp

CalcOp is a non-visual component that allows an operation (defined by the Operator property) to be performed on values from different data sources. The result can then be saved in a project parameter like CalcTotal, as indicated by the DestParam and DisplayFormat properties.
For example, suppose you need to add two DataText components, as in A + B = C (where A and B represent the two DataText component values and C represents the result stored in a project parameter). The three source types have many different values associated with them.
The calculation can start with different types of data sources:

• A DataField source is a field in a table, or a DataView in Rave terms. Thus in order to choose a field, you must first select a DataView.
• For a Value source, you fill in the property with a numeric value.
• A CalcVar source represents another calculation variable; you can choose one from the drop-down menu that lists all the calculation variables available in the page. This value can be from another CalcOp component or from some other calculation component.

After choosing the data sources, you select the operation to be used between them. The Operator property has a drop-down menu you can use to make the appropriate choice. In the example A + B = C, the operator is coAdd.
Sometimes a function needs to be performed on a value before it is processed with the second value. In this case the source's Function property is handy. With a function, you can converted a value (such as hours to minutes), compute a trigonometric function (like the sin of the value), or perform many others calculations (such as a square root or absolute value).
Just as it is important to do the calculations in order, it is important to make sure the components are in order in the Project Tree. A report executes components down the Project Tree. For CalcOp components or any calculation component, this means they must be in the correct order. It is also important to note that if a source value is dependent on any other components (like other CalcOp components or DataText components), those components must come first in the Project Tree.