Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Bucket Fields

What is Bucket Field?

Bucket field is part of Saleforce Reporting.
It used to categorize data quickly without creating a formula or a custom field.

Can we use same Bucket Field on multiple reports?

No,
Below are the options :
1.Create a formula field on the object and use in multiple reports.
2.Create a report with bucket fields and save that template and build new reports from there.

Bucket fields can be used in charts ?

Yes

What are the types of Bucket Fields ?

There are 3 types 
  1. Numeric
  2. PickList
  3. Text
Example for Numeric Bucket Field :


Example for Picklist Bucket Field :



Example for Text Bucket Field :



1 comment:

  1. 1. Hi Deepika, whats the advantage of creating bucket fields over individual formula fields, from a performance perspective.
    2. What is the maximum number of bucket fields that can be created in a report?

    Thanks,
    Harsha

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