Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

Limitations and benefits of Custom Report types

As we went through this chapter, we can make use of custom report types for the following:

• Filtering the report result related to the child object
• Extending the report with look fields from the parent object
• Hidden fields will not be available for the report
• Setting default fields added when creating a new report

Here are some limitations when implementing a custom report type:

• A custom report type can contain up to 60 object references.
• You can add up to 1,000 fields to each custom report type.
• The maximum report type name length is 50 characters, including spaces.
• There are a few standard fields not available for the custom report type, such as Product Schedule fields, the Age field on ...