lower/higherFlag - the keywords
lower or
higher denote whether the value from the next lower/higher matching
record must be taken if no related record is found
For this function to access the value in sourceField, the
tables containing the source field and
calculation field need to be related. Calculations using the
LookupNext function won’t be forced to be
unstored calculations.
The People and Company tables are related using the number field CompanyID. The calculation CompanyName = LookupNext(Company::CompanyName;Higher) defined in the People table will return
Apple,
FileMaker,
Motorola, and
Cisco for records 1 to 4.