{"id":608,"date":"2014-07-08T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T06:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/?p=608"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:24:03","slug":"make-custom-object-available-for-salesforce-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/2014\/07\/08\/make-custom-object-available-for-salesforce-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Custom Object available for Salesforce Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working with reports in Salesforce, we wanted to create a custom object report in Salesforce. While trying to do this, we were unable to find the custom object in the Report Type Section.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is that we need to select the \u201cAllow Reports\u201d option in the Custom Object definition for that custom object.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, navigate to Setup &gt;&gt; Objects &gt;&gt; Your Object (e.g. Warehouse) &gt;&gt; Edit. This will open the Custom Object Definition Screen as shown below &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/custom-object-definition2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-621 size-full\" title=\"custom object definition\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/custom-object-definition2.jpg\" alt=\"custom object definition\" width=\"699\" height=\"492\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now select the \u201cAllow Reports\u201d checkbox under the Optional Features section and save the changes. This will cause the object to be populated under the \u201cOther Reports\u201d Report type section as shown in the below screenshot-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Reports2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-623 size-full\" title=\"Salesforce Custom Object Reports\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Reports2.jpg\" alt=\"Salesforce Custom Object Reports\" width=\"747\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can now use it to generate a new report for this custom object.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: Medium;\"><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/\">Greytrix<\/a> as a Salesforce Product development partner offers a wide variety of integration products and services to the end users as well as to the Partners across the globe. We offers Consultation, Configuration, Training and support services in out-of-the-box functionality as well as customizations to incorporate custom business rules and functionalities that requires apex code incorporation into the Salesforce platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/\">Greytrix<\/a> has some unique solutions for Cloud CRM such as Salesforce integration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-x3\/gumu-x3-salesforce-integration\">Sage Enterprise Management (Sage X3<\/a>), Sage Intacct, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-100-erp\/gumu-100-salesforce-integration\">Sage 100 <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/product\/sage-300-erp\/gumu-300-salesforce-integration\">Sage 300(Sage Accpac)<\/a>. 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While trying to do this, we were unable to find the custom object in the Report Type Section. The solution is that we need to select the \u201cAllow Reports\u201d option in the Custom Object definition for that custom object.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/2014\/07\/08\/make-custom-object-available-for-salesforce-report\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[68,610,310,609,611],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salesforce-srv","tag-custom-object","tag-custom-object-in-salesforce","tag-reports","tag-salesforce-report","tag-salesforce-report-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10796,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/10796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/salesforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}