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Build simple reports with summary fields - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 15 Essential Training
Build simple reports with summary fields
- [Voiceover] One of the more powerful features of FileMaker is the ability to create reports based on your data, so unlike a standard database, where you just put the data in, and hopefully, retrieve data to get it out, the real way to leverage a related database system, is to make sure that your data's doing something when it lives inside of your app. So, one of the things I like to do with the data is create reports, they don't have to be printed reports either, these can be just layouts that your users can go to, that they can hopefully interact with, and this'll give them information about the data that lives in the database that we didn't have when we put the data in there in the first place, and the main way to do that is to aggregate the data, while it's inside of your database. So, aggregating could be, like, summarizing, or coming up with averages, or finding top level information about large sets of data that live inside your custom app. So, one of the most simple ways that…
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