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Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

By : Johan Yu
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Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Concepts and Permissions in Reports and Dashboards

This chapter will explain the concept of reports and dashboards in Salesforce, and discuss the data source to generate reports and dashboards. We will continue with the mechanism on reports and dashboards stored in Salesforce with an explanation of the types of report and dashboard folders.

We will continue with permissions, which is a basic setting that controls what a user can do in Salesforce. The same is true for reports and dashboards; many permissions surface around reports and dashboards, such as the ability to create and modify reports, export reports, schedule reports, and so on.

By end of this chapter, you will have gained a strong understanding of data use for reports and dashboards, permissions around users, and granting permissions to a user with Profile and Permission Set.

Throughout the chapter, we will provide...