# Allow specific databases to be excluded from column calculations

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-specific-databases-to-be-excluded-from-column-calculations/6513>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [August 16, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-specific-databases-to-be-excluded-from-column-calculations/6513 "2024-08-16T16:58:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![interr0bangr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/interr0bangr/32/8089_2.png) [@interr0bangr](https://community.fibery.io/u/interr0bangr)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-specific-databases-to-be-excluded-from-column-calculations/6513/1 "2024-08-16T16:58:02Z")

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I’ve got a lot of fields that are named the same across multiple databases so when look at them in a table with multiple levels, they are merged under a single column to save screen real estate.

However, when that column gets calculated, it sums the values from every cell in the column, when I often only want to count the cells from 1 of the databases.

Here’s an example of where I have the same field name on 3 databases, but 2 of those fields are just sums of the 3rd field so the value in the calculated row ends up being 3 times higher than the value I want to display.

 ![Table-Fibery](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/2/2ce37cfda4298538d9b4cbc656e0e82190dcf2bc.jpeg)

Could you please add the option to filter/exclude databases from being included in the calculation row?

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**Author:** ![ccollins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ccollins](https://community.fibery.io/u/ccollins)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/allow-specific-databases-to-be-excluded-from-column-calculations/6513/2 "2024-10-22T15:14:42Z")

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I was about to submit this same idea, but glad it’s already here! Here’s a quick mockup I did to explain the need:

In this example, it’s useful to have a formula to show the total of each group. But at the bottom, it makes no sense to combine both the group sum with it’s children’s amounts.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/a/a65b027b654be595c51752691219d1db4c426bb3.png)