A report is one of the most powerful features of the Salesforce platform; depending on your permissions, you can build your own reports within minutes and manage them without help from Salesforce administrator or Salesforce developer.
We have discussed many things related to the report in previous chapters, including the permissions to create a report, permissions related to the report folder, and the report format that presents the report layout.
Another important item related to reporting is report filters. Report filters allow you to define which data conditions you want to use in order to include records in a report based on some criteria. The filter criteria in the report are almost similar to the filter criteria we found in other Salesforce features, such as List Views, Workflow Rules, and other areas in Salesforce, but the filter criteria in...