

The permission we need to grant is located under System Permissions and is called “Report Builder (Lightning Experience)”. To do this, a System Administrator will either update individual Profiles or create a Permission Set and assign it to specific Users.

We just need to grant access to individual Users or Profiles. The tool is in fact active by default in our systems. Once Salesforce made Lightning Report Builder generally available, it removed a step in the process of setting it up. When activated, a User with Profile or Permission Set permissions to use the Lightning Report Builder sees two New Report Buttons on the Reports Tab, one for the new Report Builder and one for the Classic Report Builder. This new reporting tool represents a significant change from the Report Builder in Classic we’ve grown used to over the years.

As of Summer ’18, it is GA (General Availability) and is ready for use within Lightning. In their Winter ’18 release, Salesforce unveiled the beta version of its new Lightning Report Builder.
