Record selection

Record selection, the task of paring down the data to include only the data required for your report, is a crucial step in report creation. You will rarely want a listing of all the information in a database. Most often you will be interested in only the sales in a given time period or for a certain product, etc. For example, a sales report may be designed to only include sales from one product line for the last calendar month.

The sample data used for the Quick start for new users, has information from both United States and international customers. Record selection is used to create a report listing only customers in the United States. See Record Selection and Grouping data.