What are subreports?

A subreport is a report within a report. The process for creating a subreport is similar to the process of creating a regular report. A subreport can have most of the characteristics of a report, including its own record selection criteria. The only differences between a subreport and a primary report are that a subreport:

• is inserted as an object into a primary report; it cannot stand on its own (although a subreport can be saved as a primary report)
• can be placed in any report section and the entire subreport will print in that section
• cannot contain another subreport.

There are four instances in which a subreport would typically be used:

• To combine unrelated reports into a single report. See Combining unrelated reports by using subreports.
• To coordinate data that cannot otherwise be linked. See Using subreports with unlinkable data.
• To present different views of the same data within a single report. See Showing different views of the same data in a report.
• To perform one-to-many lookups from a field that is not indexed on the lookup field. See One-to-many links.