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About nested reports
318 DataWindow .NET
Often, the information in the nested report depends on information in the report
in which it is placed (the base report). The nested report and the base report are
related to each other by some common data. The base report and the nested
report have a master/detail relationship.
Freeform report with a
related nested report
For example, the following freeform report lists all information about a
customer and then includes a related nested report (which happens to be a
tabular report). The related nested report lists every order that the customer has
ever placed. The base report supplies the customer ID to the nested report,
which requires a customer ID as a retrieval argument. This is an example of a
master/detail relationship—one customer has many orders:
What you see in the
Design view
In the Design view, you see everything in the base report plus a box that
represents the related nested report: