Add a statistic for a numeric value - Add a statistic for a numeric value - You can display the average, sum, median, or mode statistic that distinguishes numeric values, such as the number of tasks or a custom property that stores an amount value. To add a statistic for a numeric value, perform the following steps. - Perceptive Content - View Designer - Perceptive-Content/View-Designer/Foundation-26.1/View-Designer-User-Help/View-Designer-User-Help/Work-with-statistics/Add-view-statistics-overview/Add-a-statistic-for-a-numeric-value - Foundation 26.1 - Foundation 26.1

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You can display the average, sum, median, or mode statistic that distinguishes numeric values, such as the number of tasks or a custom property that stores an amount value. To add a statistic for a numeric value, perform the following steps.

Before you can add a statistic for a flag custom property value, you must add the flag custom property column to the view.
  1. Access the view preview using one of the following methods.
    Situation Steps
    Create a date statistic for a view
    1. Open the view in View Designer.
    2. In View Designer, click View > Preview.
    Create a date statistic for a container content view
    1. In Management Console, in the left pane, select Folder Types.
    2. In the right pane, select the folder type and click Modify.
    3. In the Folder Type dialog box, on the Appearance tab, click the Preview button.
    Create a date statistic for a workflow queue view
    1. Open the workflow process in Workflow Designer.
    2. Double-click the queue to open the Queue Properties window.
    3. In the Queue Properties window, in the left pane, select Appearance.
    4. In the right pane, click Preview.
    Create a date statistic for a workflow process view
    1. Open the workflow process in Workflow Designer.
    2. Click File > Properties.
    3. In the Process Properties dialog box, under Appearance, click Preview.
  2. In the Preview pane, click the Statistics button.
  3. In the Statistics dialog box, click Add.
  4. Under Label, type a label that describes the statistical function to appear in the search results grid.
    If adding a statistic to view the average amount of invoices, type Average invoice amount.
  5. Under Column, select the view column with the flag values.
  6. Under Function, select the display variable you want to show.
  7. Optional. Under Caption, select the value to display when the statistic applies to only one search result.
    If a Maximum statistic displays the invoice with the highest amount, and you want to quickly display the user name of the user who last viewed the invoice, you can use the Caption column to select the Last Viewed By user.
  8. Optional. To reorder the statistic, click the Move Up or Move Down button until the statistic reaches the desired position.
  9. Click OK.
    The statistic appears below the grid in the Preview pane.
  10. In the Preview pane, click the Run button to test the statistic's performance.