## 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.

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