Salesforce.com Customization Handbook

Sharing reports and dashboards

Sometimes, it is necessary to share reports with your team members. Let's take an example where the system administrator created one report and wants to share it with the sales director. You can share reports with your colleagues using the following methods:

• Folder sharing
• Schedule reports
• Schedule dashboards

Folder sharing

If you want to share reports with Salesforce users, then you can use the folder share method. Reports are shared by sharing the folder of the reports in which they are located. Sharing can be done among following:

• Public groups
• Roles
• Role and internal subordinates
• Users
• Roles, internal, and portal subordinates

Whenever you create any report folder, Salesforce automatically makes you the manager of this folder ...