Dan,
I've looked at the reporting function in AC. The export to Excel is a way to get data OUT of AC in a somewhat granular format. It would be a Kludge, but it could be done. I know you have some DB experience, and I have a VB routine that can connect to resultant excel files as a DB Table.

Roger
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