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Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

You're reading from   Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards Create, customize, and manage your Salesforce reports and dashboards in depth with Lightning Experience

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297387
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Johan Yu Johan Yu
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Preface 1. Fundamentals of Salesforce Reports and Dashboards FREE CHAPTER 2. Concepts and Permissions in Reports and Dashboards 3. Implementing Security in Reports and Dashboards 4. Creating and Managing Reports 5. Understanding Report Types 6. Advanced Report Configuration 7. Adding Charts in Reports and Pages 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

Sales Year to Date dashboard

In this section, we'll build a complete Sales Year to Date (YTD) dashboard, which will include multiple components, dynamic dashboards, and filters. If you are not familiar with YTD, it is a period starting from the beginning of the year (either the calendar year or fiscal year) to the present day. in this sample, I'll use the calendar year. So, if today is 25 August 2017, the YTD will be 1 Jan 2017 - 25 Aug 2017.

Creating reports as a data source

Perform the following steps to create reports required to serve as the data source for dashboard components:

  1. From the Reports tab, create a report folder called Global Sales.
  2. Switch to Classic, share the report folder visibility to everyone...
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