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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)

Preface

This book is for Salesforce administrators, business users, and managers who use Salesforce Lightning Experience in their daily work or to analyze data in Salesforce. It covers all items related to reporting and dashboards in Salesforce Lightning Experience. This book will benefit business users, who will gain knowledge ranging from creating basic reports to advanced report and dashboard configuration. Administrators will learn the entire concept of reporting and dashboards, object models, permissions related to reports and dashboards, report storage, and reporting on historical data.

Reports and dashboards are among the most powerful and easy to use features in the Salesforce platform, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Force.com, where business users are able to create and customize reports and dashboards as needed in minutes.

Business users should have basic knowledge, or should be using Salesforce in their daily work, such as logging in to the system, navigating through the Salesforce Lightning environment, creating and editing data, and running reports in Salesforce. Admin users should have basic knowledge of customizing Salesforce, such as the Setup menu, tabs, user profiles, permission sets, and standard and custom objects.