Force.com Platform Fundamentals

Preface
Introducing the Force.com Platform
About the Sample Recruiting App
Reviewing Database Concepts
Building a Simple App
Enhancing the Simple App with Advanced Fields, Data Validation, and Page Layouts
Expanding the Simple App Using Relationships
Securing and Sharing Data
Collaborating with Chatter
Automating Business Processes
Analyzing Data with Reports and Dashboards
Introducing Reports
Introducing Dashboards
Try It Out: Create Additional Reports
Try It Out: Create a Dashboard
Adding Dashboard Components
Refreshing Dashboards
Introducing Mobile Dashboards
Introducing Custom Report Types
Look At What We've Done
Moving Beyond Point-and-Click App Development
Learning More
Glossary
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Introducing Dashboards

A dashboard shows data from source reports as visual components, which can be charts, gauges, tables, metrics, or Visualforce pages. The components provide a snapshot of key metrics and performance indicators for your organization. Each dashboard can have up to 20 components. Users can view any dashboard available in a public folder in their organization, such as Company Dashboards, and can select a favorite, whose first three components display on the Home tab.

To put it mildly, users love the summarized views they get with dashboards, and no good Force.com app is complete without at least one.

A Sample Recruiting Dashboard A sample recruiting dashboard