The reports and dashboards in Salesforce can be customized to show you just about anything you want to see. This can be a great benefit for any business because you can get in-depth details on your sales team and performance, marketing initiatives, overall ROI and more. Of course, becoming a master of reporting can take quite a bit of time and practice.
One situation that occurs often is when you want to group a few different elements into a single summary report to show a bigger picture. So what do you do if you’re looking to show a report grouping’s share of the grand total? Pretty simple. You just a add custom summary formula at the summary level from the “Fields” pane in Reports. Here’s the steps to make this happen:
Standard Reports
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- Under ‘Formulas’ in the field window, double-click Add Formula.
- Enter a name for the formula and a short description
- From the ‘Format’ picklist, select Percent.
- Under “Decimal Places,” select the number of decimal places to be displayed.
- Select the Display Area where the calculated formula should be displayed – select Grouping1 to calculate percentage according to rows.
- Note: Grouping1 won’t display if your report has not already been grouped prior to creating the formula.
- Build your formula:
- To display the percentage of fields by grouping at a summary level, select the RowCount to consider total number of rows in each grouping and use the formula structure PARENTGROUPVAL(summary_field, grouping_level)
- Complete Formula: RowCount / PARENTGROUPVAL(RowCount, GRAND_SUMMARY)
Matrix format reports
If you have a Matrix format report, the formula “RowCount / PARENTGROUPVAL(RowCount, GRAND_SUMMARY)” will result in an error reading “Error: Invalid custom summary formula definition: Incorrect number of parameters for function ‘PARENTGROUPVAL()’. Expected 3, received 2.”
This error occurs because 3 parameters must be defined for this report format, for example: PARENTGROUPVAL(summary_field, parent_row_grouping, parent_column_grouping)
For Matrix format reports, your complete formula would be RowCount / PARENTGROUPVAL(RowCount, ROW_GRAND_SUMMARY, COLUMN_GRAND_SUMMARY)
That wasn’t so hard, was it? Need to learn more about how to group your reports? Click here!
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