Creating and Managing Reports

You learned about the concept of the Salesforce report in Chapter 2, Concepts and Permissions in Reports and Dashboards. We learned how to generate reports from the data source, how data will be shown when a report is generated in Salesforce, how reports are stored in Salesforce, how to share reports with your team or everyone in your organization, and how to acquire the permissions required to work with report. In Chapter 3, Implementing Security in Reports and Dashboards, we learned about how to secure our reports and dashboards.

In this chapter, we will hands-on create reports, discuss more technical details when working with reports, explore what kinds of report you can build in Salesforce, and discover how easy it is to create a new report and maintain existing reports. We will start with multiple types of report format available in Salesforce...