Specifications

CHAPTER 11 Using Nested Reports
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About placing a
nested report within
another report
You can place one or more reports within another report. The report you place
is called the nested report. You can place a nested report in any type of report
except crosstab. Most of the time you will place nested reports in freeform or
tabular reports.
Often, the information in the nested report depends on information in the report
in which it is placed (the base report). The nested report and the base report are
related to each other by some common data. The base report and the nested
report have a master/detail relationship.
Freeform report with a
related nested report
For example, the following freeform report lists all information about a
customer and then includes a related nested report (which happens to be a
tabular report). The related nested report lists every order that the customer has
ever placed. The base report supplies the customer ID to the nested report,
which requires a customer ID as a retrieval argument. This is an example of a
master/detail relationship—one customer has many orders: