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Building simple reports with summary fields

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Building simple reports with summary fields

One of the most powerful and useful capabilities of FileMaker Pro databases is its capacity to group and summarize data in a report format, this allows you to do things like aggregate, organize, and otherwise just manipulate data that users have already entered into your system in the form of reports and outputs that gave you visibility of data that you wouldn't normally have. And the most powerful type of report in FileMaker is something that's called the Subsummary Report. At its essence is Subsummary Report is a way to present a list of data that's grouped by certain variable, let me give you an example that based on our Invoice List View. If you look at this in List View, you can see that the Invoice List layout is really just a list of a bunch of different orders, placed by a customer, to the tune of about 146 different orders. Now this is great, the information looks just like it does when the user entered into the system, but with one simple change we can turn this list into a…

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