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Creating subsummary reports

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Creating subsummary reports

- Adding a summary value to a list view can turn a static list of data into a somewhat more compelling report by showing the user some aggregate data that they didn't have to enter into the database. In a previous example, we did that very thing by adding a Summary field to a list view that shows us the total of all the invoices in a given found set. Now as much as that makes the data more useful, and helps us answer questions, and frankly, do that interactively by changing found sets, it can get a little bit difficult to just view the data with these large data sets. And this isn't even a large data set. This is 146 records. Imagine if we had a 146,000 records, but a good method for making them more intuitive and frankly, easier to read, is to group data that are in lists like this. This approach can break the data down into easier to consume little mini found sets of data. So you have one big found set with a bunch of mini found sets within it. FileMaker has a special layout part…

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