not a stupid question :)
Right today, the only way to get that total would be to have a Parent table of the ACQ groups, and then make a relationship to these detail records to get the Total, and then lookup that Total back down to the detail records.
But there is an early limited Beta feature out there now called Formula Queries which is new functionality to be able to do what you want, that being to grab totals without having a relationship. Access to that Beta is on request and by invitation only as they are doing performance testing to make sure the apps still are "Quick".
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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