Process Layout is represented in a grid. Typically, a process includes several areas. Each area may contain information to be updated to one or more tables.

The detail area can contain one or more lines for each composite group. For example, in processing customer names and addresses, you may want rows processed one per line. For a medical record, you may need more than one line for each composite group.

Note that some processes, for example, processes that only summarise information from your tables, will have no detail area at all.

Many processes contain totalling information that appears in a group footer. For example, in a sales process, where rows have been grouped by state, the group footer occurs after all rows for a state have been processed. Each group footer contains total for that state.

SnapProc provides nine levels for grouping rows (breaks), with group headers and/or group footers for each level. For example, by using two levels of footers, the sales process could contain total information by city, within state. In a more complex sales process, you might use several levels of group footers to contain totals for each product, product line, territory, region and division.

A process can contain an area called the summary that is processed once for the entire process. The summary area that appears at the end of a process, is the area where grand totals typically appear.