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Chapter 3 | Creating databases 101
To include summary data on a layout (for example, subtotals, grand totals, averages, counts, and
so on), you place summary fields in summary layout parts (see
“Creating summary fields” on
page 65). Summary parts include grand summary and subsummary parts.
1 A grand summary part usually contains one or more summary fields that display summary
information (like totals) about all records being browsed.
1 A subsummary part usually contains one or more summary fields that display “subsummary”
information (like subtotals) for a subset of records. The records are grouped (sorted) by values
in another field, the break field. Whenever the value of the break field changes, the report
“breaks” and FileMaker
Pro inserts the subsummary part. Subsummary parts appear in Table
View and List View when sorted by break fields, and update dynamically whenever data in the
file is changed.
For more information about working with fields on a layout, see Help.
Working with layout object, part, and background styles
Each layout theme includes default styles for the objects and layout parts that you create while
using that theme. Styles give objects and parts on a layout a consistent appearance. They also
save you the time of reassigning formatting attributes each time you create a new object or part.
A theme also includes a default style for the layout background.
Some themes include additional default styles for some objects. For objects that have multiple
components, each component has a separate style. For example, portals have a Portal style,
which formats the entire object, and a Portal: Rows style, which formats only the rows of the portal.
You can modify default styles or design new styles and save them for use on the current layout.
When you edit and save formatting attributes for styles that are applied to multiple objects or layout
parts, your changes are applied to all objects and parts that use those styles on the current layout.
You can also create new styles with custom names, which you can then apply to objects, layout
parts, or the layout background on the current layout. Any styles you modify and save, or any
custom styles that you create, apply only to the current layout.
To use your custom styles on other layouts, save your styles to a theme. You can save custom
styles to FileMaker
Pro themes or you can create new custom themes.