Database Reference
In-Depth Information
tion you want to appear only at the end of your printed document, you can use the Trail-
ing Grand Summary part to that effect.
Parts in Form View
When in Browse mode, and viewing the layout as a form, you see every part (subsummary
parts are a special exception, as you'll learn in
Chapter 15
)
. You never use
all
these parts on
a layout you plan on viewing in Form view. In general, if you only ever want to view a lay-
out as a form in Browse mode, then you really need only a Body part, although if you plan to
print, then you may want a Header part as well so logos, menus, and other user interface
items don't repeat for every record you print.
Parts in List View
List view is a
list
because it shows several records at once. FileMaker accomplishes this ma-
gic by repeating the Body part once for each record. The layout may have several other parts,
too, which appear in the same order they appear in Layout mode. (Title Headers and Title
Footers don't appear in Browse mode.)
Parts in Preview Mode
A quick glance at Preview mode might lead you to believe that it shows only the Title Head-
er and the Title Footer (exactly the opposite of List view), but that's not entirely true. Turn
your eyes to
Figure 7-4
for the whole story.
Just as in List view, the Grand Summary parts place themselves before the first record and
after the last record. Finally, scrolling in Preview mode just scrolls the current page. If you
need to see other pages of your report while you're in Preview mode, use the topic icon to
move around.
