How to use custom summary formulas in a report

Use custom summary formulas in Summary and Matrix reports to create new summaries of your numerical fields, in a ddition to the standard summaries.

Things to know about custom summary formulas

  • You can have up to five per report
  • Formulas cannot reference other summary formulas
  • Formulas CAN reference formula fields in the data
  • They only display on summary rows, not detail record rows

Adding a custom summary formula - Click Reports

Adding a custom summary formula - Click Reports

Open the report you want to modify

Open the report you want to modify

Click Customize

Click Customize

Click Add Formula

Click Add Formula

Give it a name, choose the format, click Summary Fields

  1. Give your summary formula a descriptive name (and add a description below it)
  2. Choose the format
  3. Select where the formula will be displayed
  4. Click on Summary Fields
Give it a name, choose the format, click Summary Fields

Select the first field

Select the first field

Choose the operators

Choose the operators

Select what you would like to do

For this example, we are looking at the win rate percentage - so we are going to divide the wins by the closed

Select what you would like to do

Choose the second field

Choose the second field

Check your formula

I am dividing the sum of the won opportunities by the sum of the closed opportunities. I want to check syntax to make sure it's okay.

Check your formula

View the report

View the report

Save As

Save As

Give it a name and description

Give it a name and description

0 Comments

Add your comment

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.