When we discussed the report and dashboard folders in the chapter earlier, you may have noticed that we talked about permissions to create report, to create report folder, and so on. Permission is the basic setting that controls the ability of a user to do things in Salesforce including reports and dashboards.
Before we start to create a report, we'll discuss a few permissions, which determine the ability of a user to run, create, edit, export, schedule, and subscribe reports in Salesforce.