Best practice advice needed

[Andy Green]

Hi
 I need to build a report comprising several diferent pages but all based on the same underlying data. For example the first page would be a summary of all data, the next few pages would be detailed information thqt was used to create the summary, then some text pages displaying written text ect.

I was going down the route of creating a separate report for each and using the ReportBook to bring them all together.

I'm thinking I could also do this with sub reports for each of the sections, which would be the prefered approach.

Andy

[Steve]

Hi Andy Green,

Contrary to popular believe, the subreport are not used only when you need to create master-detail relation, but simply as a container item in order to separate your data as well. So whichever approach you find most feasible for your scenario would work.

Regards,
Steve
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[Andy Green]

Thanks.

I'm currently going down the Report Book route, but I hiave some issues. Assuming my other posts can help me out I'll stick with it.
Thanks for confirming the way Sub Reports can be used.

Andy

[Brendan Casey]

Hi -

I'm also looking for best practice advice.  I have a report that is essentially an empty container for two subreports.  I have been able to create/run these at design time without a problem, passing report parameters to the subreports successfully.  However at runtime the main report is displayed, but there is no data for the subreports -- they appear to be missing altogether.

Is there a better approach I should be using?  Essentially I have the scenario described below:

Main Report:
Parameters (ClientID, StartDate, EndDate)

Subreport 1
Parameters (ClientID.Value = Parameters.ClientID.Value, StartDate.Value = Parameters.StartDate.Value, EndDate.Value = Parameters.EndDate.Value)

Subreport 2
Parameters (ClientID.Value = Parameters.ClientID.Value, StartDate.Value = Parameters.StartDate.Value, EndDate.Value = Parameters.EndDate.Value)

Both subreports are using the same parameters, and are contained in the Main Report's header section.  Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks in advance,
-Brendan

[Peter]

Hi Brendan,

Please check the Creating Master-Detail Reports Using SubReports help article for more info about your scenario and the Invoice demo report, which shows the approach from the article in action.

All the best,
Peter
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