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Building simple reports with summary fields - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 14 Essential Training
Building simple reports with summary fields
- One of the most powerful and useful capabilities of FileMaker Pro is its capacity to group and summarize data into a report format. This allows you to do things like aggregate, organize or otherwise just manipulate data that users have already entered into your system, into reports and outputs that give visibility of data that you wouldn't normally have. So this adheres to this mantra of your database should do more than just store data. It should be able to create more information based on it and a Report is a great example of doing that. Like for example, we're just looking at a bunch of invoices here onscreen. I don't know much about them. I'm just looking at the list of them. So the more information I can add to this layout that tells me something about what I'm looking at, the more valuable that information will be. FileMaker has a couple of different tools, that we're gonna cover in this chapter, that both help us summarize data, and then also present data in a grouped or…
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