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Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

Create, customize, and manage your Salesforce reports and dashboards in depth with Lightning Experience

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
Paid access
|Jul 2025
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Description

Learn how to build advanced reports and dashboards in Salesforce Lightning experience

Key Features

  • Visualize and create advanced reports and dashboards using Lightning Experience
  • Improve overall business efficiency with advanced and effective reports and dashboards
  • Understand and create custom reports and dashboards

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Navigate in Salesforce.com within the Lightning Experience user interface
  • Secure and share your reports and dashboards with other users
  • Create, manage, and maintain reports using Report Builder
  • Learn how the report type can affect the report generated
  • Explore the report and dashboard folder and the sharing model
  • Create reports with multiple formats and custom report types
  • Explore various dashboard features in Lightning Experience
  • Use Salesforce1, including accessing reports and dashboards

Who this book is for

This book is targeted at Salesforce.com administrators, business analysts, and managers who use Salesforce.com for their daily job and want to learn in depth about Salesforce Reporting and Dashboard in Lightning Experience. Readers should have a basic knowledge of Salesforce, such as: Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities and custom objects.

Table of Contents

  1. Fundamental of Salesforce Report and Dashboard
  2. Concept and Permissions in Report and Dashboard
  3. Implementing Security in Report and Dashboard
  4. Create and Manage Report with Report Builder
  5. Understanding Report Type
  6. Advance Report Configuration
  7. Adding Chart in Report and Page
  8. Working with Reports
  9. Building Dashboards in Lightning Experience
  10. Learning Advanced Dashboard Configuration
  11. Advanced Tips and Tricks for Reports and Dashboards
  12. Dashboards and Reports in the Salesforce1 Mobile App
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78829-673-1
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 402
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Networking

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