Chapter 10. Getting Started with Reporting

In this chapter

Deriving Meaning from Data

Working with Lists of Data

Summarized Reports

Delivering Reports

Troubleshooting

FileMaker Extra: Incorporating Reports into the Workflow

Deriving Meaning from Data

Reporting is an important component of almost every database project. Indeed, the need to create reports that summarize or synthesize data is often the reason many databases exist in the first place. No matter what your database does, it’s a fair bet that you have many reporting needs.

Reports come in many shapes and sizes: There are simple list reports, summarized reports, workflow reports, cross-tabulated reports, variance reports, and graphic reports (to name but a few). There are standard reports ...

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