Select Subtotal Fields

This is the panel where you select which fields to subtotal. The sort field name is displayed at the top of the panel to show the level where the subtotaling is performed (labeled CONTROL FIELD on the panel). You will now interact with the field selection process much the same way as the report field and sort field selection panels did. From this screen you select each field, one at a time, to do subtotaling on. You will be guided to panel DMS044J to enter more information about the counter. When you finish selecting the field(s) you want totaled, press the <ENTER> key. This will return you to panel DMS044O, where you can select other sort fields on which to total.

Again, the commands for this panel are nearly identical to the report field selection panel. There are two line commands that can be used:

An S to select a subtotal field, or
A D to delete it from the subtotal field selection list

From the command line you can enter:

S <fieldname>—to select a field for subtotaling without having to move the cursor to it,
D <fieldname>—to delete the subtotal field,
L <string>—to locate or position the display to the first field name in the table that begins with the same character string, or
CANCEL, which cancels the report definition and returns you to the online reports primary option menu.

Note: The fields shown in the previous examples with < >should be entered without the brackets.

There is one important piece of information to keep in mind: the order in which you select the fields is the order in which they will be printed on the output report. Why is this important? Because the line spacing that you will specify on the next panel will influence the printing of subsequent subtotals. For instance, if you want all of the subtotals at a given control level to be printed on a separate page, then the first subtotal field you select must be specified with a line spacing value of E.