Salesforce Lightning Reporting and Dashboards

Understanding Report Types

You learned about creating and managing reports in Chapter 4, Creating and Managing Reports. In that chapter, we discussed how important it is to select the correct report format that determines report layout, and we also discussed how to add report filters, Filter logic, Cross Filter, and Row Limit to get the report result required.

You read about report type many times in previous chapters. In this chapter, we will discuss report types in depth, starting with the report type category, standard report type, custom report type, and end with a few hands-on exercises to create custom report types, extend custom report types, and apply them by creating new reports. In this chapter, we will also share the benefits and ...