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Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples–Bucketing in Salesforce Reports

Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples – Bucketing in Salesforce Reports is the third part of the series “Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples” where I will be sharing some key features for the Salesforce Reports which is an inspiration from a similar series on formulas – “Learn Salesforce Formulas with Examples” and the numerous related queries on Answers Community. Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples – Bucketing in Salesforce Reports will surely prove to be helpful to the Salesforce Report users in learning & implementing bucketing in Salesforce Reports.

Bucketing:

“Bucketing lets you quickly categorize report records without creating a formula or a custom field, Bucket fields can be used like any other field to sort, filter, and group your report. When you create a bucket field, you define multiple categories (buckets) used to group report values.”

It can group only the below data types fields:

1. Picklist
2. Number
3. Text

I will take an example of a common use case where:

  • First Bucketing on Basis of Amount (Numeric Bucketing Example): The Administrator has been asked to segregate opportunities on basis of the “Amount” mentioned in the Opportunity object
  • Here if the opportunity amount if “Amount <=500: Category=Bronze”, “Amount >500 to 1000: Category=Silver”, “Amount >1000 to 10000: Category=Bronze”
  • Second Bucketing on Basis of Stage (Picklist Bucketing Example): Here all the Opportunities where “Stage = Closed Won” are categorized as “Winning”, “Stage = Closed Lost” are categorized as “Loose” and all other Stages are categorized as “Others”
  • Third Bucketing on basis of Opportunity Age (Numeric Bucketing Example): If Opportunity “CloseDate<=10” Category=Immediate Respondent, “CloseDate>30” Category=Late Respondent, “CloseDate>30” Category=Non-Respondent.

Here is how I have categorized bucket fields on my data in Opportunity sObject:

  1. On basis of Amount
  2. On the basis of Stage
  3. Based on Opportunity Age

The second use case here would be using the Bucket field as a filter criteria of the report

  1. User will create the first Bucket field on basis of Amount:

Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples Using Bucketing create

 

Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples Using Bucketing report

 

2. User will create the first Bucket field on basis of StageName:

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3. User will create the first Bucket field on basis of Age:

Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples Using Bucketing Range

 

Now the user needs to Create filters based on values in Bucket field:

Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples Using Bucketing Example

 

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Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples Using Bucketing filter

 

Get more information on Bucketing in Salesforce Reports I would recommend reading the following documentation by Salesforce: http://sforce.co/2htdoti

Also, don’t miss out on the following articles:

Start with Bucketing in Salesforce Reports: http://sforce.co/2hRh1u4

Number Bucketing Example: http://sforce.co/2iJxqox

Picklist Bucketing Example: http://sforce.co/2iibZIa

Important considerations for all users working on Field-Bucketing in Salesforce:

 

  • As mentioned Earlier:

It can group only the below data types fields:
1. Picklist
2. Number
3. Text

  • To show the values for a particular bucket, click the bucket name.
  • To remove values from a bucket, select the values and drag them to another bucket, or drag them to Un-bucketed Values.
  • Bucket fields can be used for sorting, filtering and grouping your report.
  • Bucket field of a report is only available for that report where it’s created.

Finally, lets use a bucket field in our report:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you Enjoyed the blog “Learn Salesforce Reports with Examples – Bucketing in Salesforce Reports”, stay tuned for more blogs in the series.