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Adding charts to reports

Adding charts to reports - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Adding charts to reports

- Adding sub-summary parts to a layout can make the data on the layout be easier for your users to read and interpret. Much like the example file here, where I've got a bunch of different invoices that are broken down by the salesperson who's responsible for the sale. Rather than just looking at a list of a bunch of invoices, with a column that said the salesperson, instead we can group by them, and we can actually find some interesting information out here too, where we're summarizing the total sales for salesman, Boo. Here's all their accounts. Brady, has a whole 'nother. Brinkley, so on and so on and so on. But FileMaker also has some features that can make data visualization very appealing, specifically this can be achieved through something called the Charting Tool. So, what we're gonna do is add a chart that basically says the same information but tells it in a visually appealing way. And we'll add a chart to the layout, in Layout Mode, but first I need to make some space for…

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