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Learning Force.com Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Force.com Application Development Use the Force.com platform to design and develop real-world, cutting-edge cloud applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782172796
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chamil Madusanka Chamil Madusanka
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Force.com FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the Data Model 3. Building the User Interface 4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data 5. Implementing Business Processes 6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform 7. Custom Coding with Apex 8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce 9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform 10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform 11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites 12. Deploying the Force.com Application A. Force.com Tools Index

Custom report types


In the Force.com platform, the Report type is a set of rules that determine which records and fields appear in the report. The Report types are categorized into two;

  • Standard report types

  • Custom report types

Custom report types allow you to build a skeleton in the report wizard from which users can create and customize reports. With custom report types, you can enable users to create reports from the predefined objects, object relationships, and fields that you specify. You build custom report types of the relationships (master-detail and lookup) between objects so that you can:

  • Choose which standard and custom objects to display to users creating and customizing reports

  • Define the relationships between objects displayed to users creating and customizing reports

  • Select which objects' fields can be used as columns in reports

    Tip

    The visibility of custom report types in the report wizard is controlled by the user's access to the objects in the report type.

To create a custom report...

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