Main Report use summary information from subreport

[MEDIABO]

What I'm wondering is, is there a way to get the main report to look up information in a subreport?

Main Report information = vendor A
Sub Report information = vendor B

I need to do the following:
Summary info vendor A (MainReport)
-Summary info vendor B (Sub report)
=Total Summary info needed displayed in main report

 

[lbass]

You could, but why wouldn't you just insert a group on vendor and run the main report for both vendors. The summaries would then be in the group footers, and you could add grand total fields.

-LB

 

[synapsevampire]

You're better served to supply technical information:

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LBs suggestion makes sense from your decription, but it may not serve your needs if there's soemthing which makes you think that a subreport is required.

In general they're a bad idea.

Anyway, you can use Shared Variables to pass data back and forth between main and subreports, as in the following placed in a subreport:

shared numbervar MyTotal:= sum({table.field})

Then in a sectionafter the subreport runs one would use:

whileprintingrecords;
shared numbervar MyTotal;

-k