Force Platform Fundamentals: An Introduction to Custom Application Development in the Cloud

Introducing Reports

We can help users monitor and analyze the data that’s being generated in their organization by building reports. Reports are summaries of the data that’s stored in an app. They consist primarily of a table of data, but can also include data filters, groupings, and a customized graph.

Figure 81. A Sample Report

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While a comprehensive set of reports is included with every organization to provide information about standard objects such as contacts and accounts, we can also build custom reports that highlight interesting metrics about the data stored in our custom objects.

For example, some of the questions ...