Salesforce External Object Reporting with OData Reporting against external objects has been highly anticipated based on numerous requests on the Idea on the success community . Back in Winter ‘16, Mark Kovacevich blogged on a popular workaround to use external objects for reporting with custom visual force pages and apex controllers. But starting in Winter ’17, there is much rejoicing among report geeks as the Salesforce Connect product team delivers a seamless reporting experience with external data made possible by support for a standard OData REST interface.