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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)

Subscribing reports

In Lightning Experience, you can subscribe to up to five reports and receive refreshed report results by email on a schedule that you set--Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.

To subscribe to reports, you need to have the Subscribe to Reports permission granted from Profile or Permission Set. On top of that, there are two more additional permissions related to this:

  • Subscribe to Reports: Add Recipients
  • Subscribe to Reports: Set Running User

These permissions require the Subscribe to Reports permission to be enabled.

This is a sample of an email sent to you when you subscribe for a report; you can click on the report title to open the report directly in Salesforce or click on the record name, such as Account Name or Opportunity Name, to open the report in Salesforce:

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