title: Why jMeter show transaction controller data in its summary report?
body: <p>Here i have A recording controller and test script recorder. I recorded the user activities using template. This automatically creates a Recording controller and then transaction controller. Each transaction controller has child HTTP request wrapped inside it. Now when I run the test after creating a test script, I see that the aggregated result shows information about (throuput, error, min etc) for child HTTP request(Sampler) as well as the parent transaction controller. </p>
  
  <p>I'll make it more clearer with images below. </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/p8UfE.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>In the above picture ive created the test plan. Now when I run this test i get following result. The circled ones are the transaction controller.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Ujao.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Here, i have circled the  parent transaction controller. Now why on earth is this adding up to the result. </p>
  
  <p>Question: Is it making any request to the website? Why is this showing up and adding values to the child request. This thing is just a sum of all its child request - so, why is it adding up in the table?</p>
  
  <p>Here again if I click on the "Generate parent sample" then it hides the child request and shows only the summed up report which is totally different from above report. </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9DiR9.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Now the question is how do I turn things around. What are the consequences. And what should I do in this case. Shall i compute the parent-child report or just the parent report data?</p>