Salesforce Tips – Discover the API Metadata for Salesforce Reports

By | June 24, 2020
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This blog signifies how a user can find the API metadata for a particular report. Before going through this blog make sure you have a keen understanding of reports, workbench and can understand sample apex code.

User will generally use this method to find the API name for the field attribute in <analytics:reportChart>. Using the Analytics API user can access Report Metadata.

Kindly follow the below steps to get the metadata for the report:

  • Open Salesforce workbench (https://workbench.developerforce.com/)
  • Select your Salesforce (Sandbox or Production) Environment and API version to login to your Salesforce credentials.
  • In workbench under the “Utilities” tab click on “REST Explorer”
  • Copy the URL: “/services/data/v29.0/analytics/reports/YourReportID/describe” and paste it in the Execute box.

Note: Paste the Report ID of your Report and replace it with YourReportID from the URL

  • To identify YourReportID, go to the reports tab. Open your report, and copy the text as shown in the below image
Report ID
Report ID
  • Execute the URL and you will see responses for the particular Report and click on the ReportMetadata.
  • In the expanded view of the module, search for ReportFilters. And you will see the number of parameters that have been set for the report.
Report Filters
Report Filters
  • Now we can use pass the filter value of the report dynamically through Apex class as shown in the below apexcode: 
<analytics:reportChart reportId="00O3D000000bsojUAA" filter="[{column:'FK_ACC_ID', operator:'equals', value:'DynamicallyAssignedValue'}]" size="medium" cacheResults="false"/>
Where,
Column: The API name of the field that you want to filter on.
Operator: The API name of the condition you want to filter a field by, for example to filter by “not equal to”, we can use API name “notEqual”
Value: The filter criteria.

For more information, you can refer the below link: Use Metadata API to retrieve and deploy using Workbench

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