Some Salesforce Info Can Only Be Reported on via a Custom Report Type

Learning how to set up and leverage Custom Report Types in Salesforce is worth devoting some admin learning time toward.  There are a number of things within Salesforce that can only be reported on when using a Custom Report Type as the basis for a Custom Report.  They include:

• Reports with or without Dashboard Components
• Dashboards and their Dashboard Components
• Knowledge (by creating Custom Report Types on each Article Type)
• Reporting on Chatter
  • Chatter Activity
  • Groups
  • Hashtags
  • Users with or without Followers
  • Users with or without Chatter Activities
• Domains and Domain Sites
• Mobile Sessions
• Ideas
• Data.com (Note there is a free AppExchange App containing a few Data.com Dashboards)
• Identity Provider Event Log
  • Since no one knows what this is: The identity provider event log records both problems and successes with inbound SAML authentication requests from another app provider, and outbound SAML responses when Salesforce is acting as an identity provider

To learn how to create Custom Report Types, see our previous blog article entitled "5 Great Salesforce Custom Report Type Examples & How to Create Them".