Creating subsummary reports

…Creating reports out of the data in your FileMaker database…is going to be a very common request that you'll get.…And adding a summary field to a list view…can turn a static list of data into a somewhat…more compelling report by simply showing the user some aggregated…data that didn't have to be entered into the database.…As a matter of fact, you can that here.…We've got a summary field called total summary…that is totaling up all of the invoice…total fields and if we changed our found…sets, that value gets updated per each found set.…

Now many times large list views can still be tough to interpret.…But a good method for making them more intuitive is to…group the data into little separate mini found sets, or grouped data.…You can break this down into data that can be easier to…consume, and easier to review if you're creating a report, for example.…FileMaker has a special layout part that's called a sub summary part.…That you can use to give your layout…instructions on how to group data in a list.…This, in essence, creates these little mini-found sets of…