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5 Select Insert>Control>Report from the menu bar.
6 In the Design view, click where you want to place the report.
The Select Report dialog box displays, listing defined reports
(DataWindow objects) in the current project’s library search path.
7 Select the report you want, and click OK.
A box representing the report displays in the Design view.
8 With the report still selected, select the General page of the Properties
view.
The Arguments box lists arguments defined for the nested report and
provides a way for you to specify how information from the base report
will be used to supply the values of arguments to the nested report.
9 Supply the base report column or the expression that will supply the
argument’s value. To do this, click the button in the Expression column.
The Modify Expression dialog box displays. In this dialog box, you can
easily select one of the columns or develop an expression. In the example,
the column named
id from the base report will supply the value for the
argument :customerid in the nested report.
10 Select File>Save from the menu bar and assign a name to the report.