Quick Start

76 Getting Started Guide
About subsummary reports
A report with grouped data requires a number of elements to work
properly.
Subsummary reports include:
1 a subsummary part in the report layout for each level of detail you want
to break out. The New Layout/Report assistant creates these for you.
1 a field or fields to group records by. These fields are referred to as
break fields.
1 records sorted by these break fields, in the order the subsummary
parts appear on your report layout.
Create a subsummary report
To create the Membership Type Report:
1. Open the Tutorial folder in the FileMaker Pro folder.
2. Open the Working Files folder.
You should be here: FileMaker Pro\Tutorial\Working Files.
3. Open MyFile09.fp5.
4. In Layout mode, choose Layouts menu > New Layout/Report.
5. For Layout Name type Membership Type Report.
6. Select Columnar list/report for the new layout type and click Next.
7. Select Report with grouped data, and click Next.
Select the fields used in this report
1. Double-click Membership Type, the first field to be used in this
report, to move it to the Layout fields list.
2. Select and move the Last Name field.
3. Select and move the First Name field.