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Subreports added to the report-header, report-footer or nodata band will be executed once per lifetime of the parent report. If added to the group-header or group-footer, subreports will be executed for every instance of time the group-header and footer are going to be displayed. Subreports added to the itemband will be executed as often as there are rows in the parent report's datasource.
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Whenever reports are executed, the reporting engine calls the data-factory of the report to retrieve the report's data-set. The data-factory receives the query-name and the current values of all declared parameters to allow the parametrization of the data-retrieval. If a subreport is attached to a band that is printed multiple times, the subreport will query the data-factory multiple times, each time with the current values of the master-report.
Master-Reports (= reports without a parent report) receive the values for the parameters that are passed into the data-factory from the declared set of report-parameters and (the now obsolete) report-properties.
Subreports read the parameter-values from the current data-row of the master-report. Subreport only import values for the columns declared as import parameters. Import parameters can be optionally copied with a different name into the subreport (aliased) to avoid column-naming conflicts.
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Whenever multiple instances of a subreport are printed on a single parent report, the
data-factory needs additional information to return the correct dataset for the given instance of the subreport. This additional information must be passed to the subreport via parameters.
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