I've been having a play and reading the help about a part of ArcMap I don't really use and that is the Reports. I thought I would teach myself a bit more about this by creating a simple report, for which I have spectacularly failed!
I have a point dataset, say with 100 points and there is a text field that gives each point a type. For arguments sake I have types A, B, C and D.
I've been trying to create a single page that would give a count for each type, something that the Summary Statistics tool can do. The end result would be a nice looking report with a simple table like:
Type Count
A 25
B 25
C 30
D 20
That is it! Nothing more complex. Have I misunderstood what a report is actually about? I've tried setting Group Levels, Summary Function to count and Summary Group properties and have not succeeded in creating a simple table.
Best Answer
It seems that it only provides this functionality if you group by a field, so you need at least 2 fields in your data. So in short, the answer is no. Not the way you want to do it. The main function of the reporting tools is to allow you to summarise data by groups.
Below I've tried to outline the process of creating the summary you want using a group.
I've created a single point feature class with 2 fields. One called "Type" as text. The other called "Number" as short field (this 2nd field could be whatever you want - could even be blank).
I will summarise this by the "Type" field.
You will see that the data has been grouped by "Type" and underneath each group there is a count of the total number of items in that group