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The Philosophy of FileMaker - Conditional Subsummaries

The Philosophy of FileMaker - Conditional Subsummaries | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
A tremendous amount of reporting power has been packed into FileMaker Pro with an incredibly easy-to-use and flexible interface. The power and simplicity behind adding and deleting parts to organize your pages almost makes it too easy to create a sophisticated printed report. However, when a subsummary group crosses a page break, the subsummary part content doesn't repeat itself, requiring you to flip back and forth between the pages. During my five year tenure at Claris technical support, this was one of the top ten requested features. Twenty years later and there's still no way to attach a calculation formula to a part much like you can with Access Privileges to create conditional records. At least add a check box to repeat the subsummary part contents at a page break. Until some future upgrade, parts obey one set of rules embedded in the FileMaker code base. For now, your best bet is to employ workarounds for conditionally calculating subsummary content.

 

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Filemaker Pro - Sub Summary Report

Create reports that summarize data so you can get an overview of expenses, income etc.

You can make your reports very flexible so you can dynamically sort to get different types of reports.

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Demystifying Sub Summary Reporting | FileMaker - Video (57'02")

Getting answers from your FileMaker solutions through sub summary reports.

 

Introduction to summary parts and fields.

This webinar is aimed at FileMaker developers who want a better grasp of summary reporting and business owners and managers looking for betters ways to present data from their business software.

 

In it we:

 

- Explain summary fields and sub summary parts;
- Build a simple sub-summary report;
- Add extra functionality to make more dynamic and easier to use.
- Demonstrate options for reporting in Preview vs. Browse modes.
- Show different things you can do with summary parts.

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