I have two more Trailhead super badges under my belt. I’m not gonna lie, the Reports and Dashboards super badge was a BEAST! I worked on that project for three days! But, it was well worth it. I know more than I wanted to know about creating reports and graphs and adding them to dashboards. I learned about report logic, which was new for me, but will come in handy later. I learned about folder permissions and lots of other things that will be useful in my work as a Salesforce Administrator and beyond. But one of the biggest lessons I took away from working on this badge was where to look for help, support, and encouragement when you hit a snag.
The challenge is that your work is being checked by a computer. When you see that big, red square appear and it is telling you that you got a section wrong, you just have to try to backward engineer what you did to try to figure out how to fix it and make that red box disappear. I am grateful to those Salesforce admin wanna be’s before me who hit the same snags and posted their questions in the Trailblazer Community so the answers they received could be accessed by others. There were times when I wanted to just quit and move on to other modules, but I knew that I would not be able to complete the whole trailmix without completing the super badge, so I persevered.
When I finally finished, I was thrilled to send a celebratory email to my study groups. I am part of two study groups comprised of people who are pursuing the Salesforce Administrator certification. I cannot recommend joining a study group enough. It is one of my favorite parts of the Talent Stacker program.
The next day after completing the Reports badge, I was going to continue with the next module on the trail, but I decided that since I was in super badge mode, that I should knock off the Business Admin super badge, which would round out the three badges required to complete the trailmix. The Business Administration super badge turned out to be the easiest, most fun super badge of them all. I completed it in one day, but I still learned a lot and came away with a tremendous sense of accomplishment.
My tips for the Lightning Reports and Dashboards SuperBadge:
- Brush up on the reports modules before you begin.
- Make sure you have a clear understanding of report logic
- Brush up on how to create graphs to accompany reports
- Take good notes as you go along
- Ask for help from the Trailblazer Community if you need it
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