Chapter 6. Analytics and Reporting
Salesforce provides us with an intuitive and advance report builder than can help us create reports and graphs on the data inside the CRM.
By the end of this chapter, we should be able to:
- Identify which report type is suitable for business requirements
- Create custom reports
- Create graphical dashboards
- Schedule a dashboard for automatic refresh
- Set up an analytical snapshot
In the previous chapters, we learned how to build an application on Force.com. We have seen how to load data in Salesforce. Now, it is the time to generate reports and dashboards.
Let's get started with it.
Reports
Reports are useful to display large amounts of data. They are used for conditional reporting on a subset of data; for example, a report ...
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