Force Platform Fundamentals: An Introduction to Custom Application Development in the Cloud

Chapter 9. Analyzing Data with Reports and Dashboards

In this chapter ... Introducing Reports Introducing Dashboards Introducing Custom Report Types Look At What We’ve Done

We’ve come a long way with our Recruiting app—not only do we have six custom objects to store our data, but we’ve also defined security and sharing rules to protect it, and we’ve implemented several business processes with workflow and approvals. We’ve built a functional application in the cloud, and we haven’t even written a single line of code!

Now it’s time to turn our attention to the needs of the Universal Containers managers and executive staff. Because they need to keep track of many different aspects of the business, we need a way to give them a bird’s-eye view of ...