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Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

By : Johan Yu
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Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

2.7 (3)
By: Johan Yu

Overview of this book

Built on the Salesforce App Cloud, the new Lightning Experience combines the new Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder, and Lightning Components to enable anyone to quickly and easily create modern enterprise apps. The book will start with a gentle introduction to the basics of Salesforce reports and dashboards. It will also explain how to access reports in depth. Then you will learn how to create and manage reports, to use Schedule Report, and create advanced report configurations. The next section talks about dashboards and will enable you to understand and compare various types of dashboard component and how you can benefit the most from each of them. Then we move on to advanced topics and explain tips and tricks related to reports and dashboards, including reporting snapshots, report parameters, and collaboration. Finally, we will discuss how to access dashboards and reports from the Salesforce1 mobile app.
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The report and dashboard folder

Where are the reports and dashboards stored in Salesforce? They are stored in Folders. There is no limit on the number of reports and dashboards you can create and store. Folders created for reports can only be used to store reports, and the folders created for dashboards only to store dashboards. For simplicity in this book, let's call them the report folder and dashboard folder.

You can think of a folder here is similar to the folder in Windows Explorer, but without the drive and without a subfolder, and instead of storing files, it is used to store reports or dashboards depending on the folder type. As a folder manager, you can share the folder visibility to certain users, roles, roles and subordinates, or public groups.

Types of folders in Salesforce for reports and dashboards:

  • A private folder
  • Unfiled Public Folder (only for report)
  • Public...

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