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You can build a report that contains multiple reports, or subreports, and you can lay out the subreports in a variety of configurations. Within a single report, you can, for example, do the following:
A subreport is simply a report that appears inside another report. You already know how to create a report. Basically, you have one additional step to create a report that contains subreports--set up the structure of the main report to organize subreports.
Each subreport can access a different data source, its own set of tables and fields, and specify its own data selection criteria. Subreports can be linked to one another, or be independent of each other. Two reports are linked when the data of one report controls the data that appears in another.
Always create, lay out, and test each subreport, one at a time, before creating the next one. Verify that the subreport displays the correct data. If you create all your subreports, then test the entire report, you will find it difficult to determine which subreport causes errors.
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