In this chapter, we will cover:
Formatting a List Type report
Adding subreports to a report
Adding fields to the secondary contacts subreport
Adding fields to the history subreport
Scripting basics by example
Reverse engineering a set of complex scripts
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.
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