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by Araceli Kohler Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Create an Email Activity Report in Salesforce.

  • 1. In Salesforce, click Reports > New Report.
  • 2. Select Activities > Tasks and Events and then click Continue.
  • 3. Click the Filters tab in the left hand menu.
  • 4. Change the Show Me filter to All Activities and click Done.
  • 5. Click the Date filter and select a date range to report on and click Apply.

Report on Email Messages
  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Report Types , then select Report Types.
  2. Click New Custom Report Type.
  3. Select Email Message as the Primary Object. ...
  4. Optionally, select a secondary object from among these options and save the report.

Full Answer

Who can I email Salesforce reports to?

You can email users and groups who have Salesforce accounts for delivery to email addresses that are set on their Salesforce profiles. You can send reports only to email addresses included on Salesforce user records.

How do I send a refreshed report in Salesforce without email?

If no email is set in My Email Settings, then the refreshed report is sent to the recipient’s email address set on their Salesforce User record. The easiest solution is likely to be a forwarding rule on your corporate email server. Running the report in Apex and generating and sending emails in code would be substantially more complex.

How to subscribe yourself to reports in Salesforce?

Next, look at the sidebar on the left and click the option that says All Reports. In the menu on the right, sort the reports by Subscribed. Now that you know how to subscribe yourself to reports, you can subscribe others as well. Salesforce allows you to choose users, groups, and roles for report subscriptions.

What is a report in Salesforce?

You can think of a report as a list of information with all the information you’ve asked Salesforce to provide. For example, this could be a list of prospects that your sales team will call, accounts in default, or open support cases that need follow-up. Salesforce looks for the criteria you select and presents users with a list of that data.

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Can Salesforce email reports automatically?

You can set up a report to run itself daily, weekly, or monthly and send the results automatically to the people who need them.

How do I see emails sent to me in Salesforce?

To find the email in Past Activity, click the Activity tab. To open the email's task record, where you can view the message and related details, click the email link. And if you use Automatic BCC, you can find the sent email in your inbox.

How do you send a report automatically in Salesforce?

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Can you receive emails in Salesforce?

Email to Salesforce accepts the email only if the sending server passes at least one of these protocols and doesn't fail any of them. To configure Email to Salesforce to verify the legitimacy of the sending server before processing a message, select Advanced Email Security Settings.

How do I check email logs?

Use Email Log Search (ELS) to find and review email messages sent and received by users in your domain within the last 30 days. Review all messages, or search for specific messages by email address or message ID. You can download ELS search results to a Google Sheet or CSV file.

How do you analyze email logs?

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How do I automatically export reports in Salesforce?

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How do I send an email from a report in Salesforce?

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Do Salesforce reports automatically update?

Required Editions and User Permissions Click Update Preview Automatically. The switch switches on or off. When on, the report preview updates automatically after each edit you make to the report.

How do I automate emails in Salesforce?

If you want Salesforce to be able to send automated emails, it is not possible. You can set up an email template in salesforce and have it sent out automatically when triggered by certain events or criteria, but this is just one way that using salesforce as your email marketing tool can be beneficial for your business.

Can Salesforce send emails?

Emails from Salesforce It can be sent using Salesforce email servers 'Send Through Salesforce', using gmail or office 365 accounts 'Send through Gmail or Office 365' or using a company SMTP mail server 'Send Email Through Email Relay'.

How do I enable email sending in Salesforce?

In Setup > Manage users > Profiles - Click the profile to which the user is associated to. Once you are in Under General User Permissions check for Send Email option. If its not checked please enable it and try.

How Do Salesforce Reports Work?

You can think of a report as a list of information with all the information you’ve asked Salesforce to provide. For example, this could be a list of prospects that your sales team will call, accounts in default, or open support cases that need follow-up. Salesforce looks for the criteria you select and presents users with a list of that data.

Why Should You Use Salesforce Reports?

Birds-eye view of data Reports can tell you information at a glance to quickly take action. Fast, accurate responses can give you a leg up on your competition. For example, time required to prepare for a meeting could be reduced by automatically mailing reports out to your team.

Before Subscribing to Reports, Check Your Permissions on Salesforce

You will need different permissions for report subscriptions depending on who you’re trying to add and how you intend to do it.

How to Subscribe Yourself to Salesforce Reports

Now that you know what permissions you need, you can subscribe to whichever reports you like. To do this in Salesforce Classic, follow these steps.

How to Subscribe Other Salesforce Users to a Report

Now that you know how to subscribe yourself to reports, you can subscribe others as well. Salesforce allows you to choose users, groups, and roles for report subscriptions. So, for example, you can send reports on how many hours your dev team has worked for a client to your Human Resources department, so they’re billed correctly.

How Do I Manage Report Schedules in Salesforce?

Report schedules make sure that the information in your reports is up-to-date. The Schedule Report page lets you manage the frequency and conditions for sending out scheduled reports. Here, you can schedule a new report run, change an existing schedule, view current schedule jobs, and delete scheduled runs.

How Do I Manage Report Notifications?

Notifications for reports let you know when data meets a particular set of criteria that you set. You can select what you want to be notified about and what conditions are essential to you to receive relevant notifications. You can also set up notifications for the Salesforce app, email, and on Chatter.

What are reports in Salesforce?

Each Salesforce report is a set of data displayed in rows and columns that you can group or filter by certain criteria. You can also visualize Salesforce reports as a chart, such as a bar chart, line chart, donut, etc. Here is what it may look like:

How to create reports in Salesforce

Let’s go through the flow of creating a standard report in both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience. After that, we’ll also show you how to create a custom report type in Salesforce.

Salesforce report formats

When building reports in the Lightning Experience, the report format is updated automatically.

Salesforce report types

Salesforce offers out-of-the-box templates for reporting called report types. Each template corresponds to a particular set of data and columns to order this data. There are different types of reports grouped into several categories:

Reporting outside of Salesforce – why you should consider this

Both standard and custom reports in Salesforce are suitable for simple analytics, such as pipeline analysis. However, they are not fit for more advanced analytical purposes, making forecasts, and blending Salesforce records with external data.

Are native Salesforce reports good?

There cannot be an exact definition of good or bad for Salesforce reports. You can use them for your basic reporting needs, and they are good for that. At the same time, Salesforce reports are limited in functionalities compared to Google Sheets or Excel, where you can implement complex calculations.

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