Dashboards offer data visualization at a glance. The audience would be able to see the summary of the data in a graphical layout, including charts, matrix, and tables.
In Salesforce, a dashboard is one of the most interesting features. It consists of many components. It allows you to present many components in a wide blank canvas, so your audience can compare each of the components easily; for example, sales between the western region versus the eastern region, comparing last month sales with sales 2 months ago, and so on.
In this chapter, we will discuss the Lightning dashboard in detail, and you will be introduced to the Dashboards tab, with a navigation around the dashboard view, the dashboard builder, dashboard components, and the data source to support each component.
The way a dashboard works is not the same as a report. Reports...