I am working on a Document Template report but when it is run, it's not pulling any data from the object. Can you give me any trouble-shooting steps to follow? What are the ramifications of the object the report is built in? Right now, it's built on an object that I would consider to more of a parent object (Organizations) but I am wondering if it should be built further down in the chain of relationships. Is there any more documentation on placing of merge tokens (like loop begin and end)? Thanks!
I'll add simple examples for template-based reports to Chapter 6.
Reports do not refer to any record but rather to all records of certain object type. So to access data records you can:
1. Use loops through all records - this may be expensive, try to avoid it
2. Use Query API or group functions (see Chapter 6), especially for summary info.