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Analytic Snapshots

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Create Snapshot Data for Trending and Point-in-Time Reporting on Any Object
Developer, Professional, Enterprise, and Unlimited Editions

Copy data covering any objects, from any tabular report, to create a snapshot

Create reports and dashboards to show changes over time

Creating historical views on data has never been easier. You can take any tabular report and copy its data to create a dated, duplicate snapshot of the results. You can then report on that snapshot as on any other o

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tt
Jun 20		 Details on this feature are in the help, and an overview at:
http://blogs.salesforce.com/analytics/2008/05/analytic-snapsh.html

A walkthough of how to create one is at:
http://blogs.salesforce.com/analytics/2008/06/analytic-snapsh.html
mmd53
Jun 26		 So,just how does one go about scheduling an analytic snapshot?
Tom_Tobin
Jun 27		 From the analytic snapshot detail page, just choose schedule.

Look at the walkthrough in the link above, it goes through all the steps.
mmd53
Jun 27		 Okay - thanks. Then, how do you see the results of what the analytic snapshot compiled?
Tom_Tobin
Jun 28		 the data from each run is appended as new records in whatever Custom Object you chose as the "target".
yoojin_kim
Jul 12		 I think it is quite good feature, but I expected a little different thing. Why dosen't it provide for the Summary and Matrix table.. I have many daily static data. So when I first heard about it, I thought that it would make me easy to make weekly or monthly report. Every time when I see the weekly and monthly report, it takes too much time..
Tom_Tobin
Jul 13		 Although a good future change would be allowing summary reports, it's not obvious how a matrix report can be turned into a new set of rows with a fixed set of fields per row.
If you only want some of the summaries, you can make a summary report to get equivalent summaries to a matrix report.
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