After reading this chapter you will be able to use more of the capabilities of the ACT! reports editor.
In this chapter, we continue to work with the ACT! report editor. In Chapter 4, Working with the Report Editor, we went through the tasks that are required to build a report template based on a single ACT! database table. Such single table reports are useful for making hard copies of database records. Another use for such reports is to create an electronic copy such as a PDF file of contact record data that can be sent via email to someone else. However, to make use of the database one-to-many relationships between the different database tables in a report, you need to use subreports.
A subreport is the equivalent of building another report within the main report template. While they are very similar in nature, there are differences to consider. The addition of subreports to a main report allows creation of more complex reports that involve more than one of the ACT! database...