SteveMo shares The Power of One, simply the greatest formula ever written. The Power of One is a formula trick that allows you to get counts in a Report - and when you can quantify something, that's where the magic happens! Once you harness it, The Power of One will change the way you and your users build Reports and Dashboards forever.

1. The Power of One
“The Greatest Formula Ever Written”
​ Steve Molis
​ Salesforce MVP
​ stevemolis@gmail.com
​ @SteveMoForce
​

2. Steve Molis
Salesforce MVP
stevemolis@gmail.com
@SteveMoForce

3. • 5 Time Salesforce MVP: 2011-2015
• Community College Drop-Out : 0.67 GPA *
• Self-Taught Administrator/Developer/Analyst
• 1 App named after me “Thanks, Reid Carlberg!”
​ * Margin of error: +/- 0.67
A little about SteveMo…

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6. The Greatest
Formula EVER*
* Seriously I mean like Taylor Swift “ever” - I’m not making this shit up.

7. The Formula Builder

8. The Power of One
Created by Thomas Tobin, the Patron
Saint of Salesforce Analytics
Custom Field
Datatype = Formula
Result = Number, 0 Decimals
Formula
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25. Multi year-over-year variance calculation
Problem
• Calculate variance in Opportunity count
on a Year-to-Year basis in a Report
Solution
• Evaluate the number of records in the
current period and compare them to the
previous period and return the +/-
variance count and percent using Report
Custom Summary Formulas.
Functions and Operators used
• The Power of One
• PREVGROUPVAL
• /
• -
• <>

26. Multi year-over-year variance calculation
Solution: Custom Summary Formula
Format: Number
Formula:
Opportunity.Opportunity__c:SUM -
PREVGROUPVAL(Opportunity.Opport
unity__c:SUM, CLOSE_DATE)

27. Multi year-over-year variance calculation
Solution: Custom Summary Formula
Format: Percent
Formula:
IF(PREVGROUPVAL(Opportunity.Opp
ortunity__c:SUM, CLOSE_DATE) <> 0,
(Opportunity.Opportunity__c:SUM -
PREVGROUPVAL(Opportunity.Opport
unity__c:SUM, CLOSE_DATE)) /
PREVGROUPVAL(Opportunity.Opport
unity__c:SUM, CLOSE_DATE),NULL )

28. Multi year-over-year variance calculation

29. Formula Resources: Developerforce Trailhead!
https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead

30. Formula Resources: Developerforce Trailhead!
https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead

31. Formula Resources: Developerforce Trailhead!
https://developer.salesforce.com/signup?

32. Formula Resources
• Introduction to Formulas
https://developer.salesforce.com/page/An_Introduction_to_Formulas
• Developerforce Formulas & Validations Trailhead
https://developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/module/point_click_business_logic
• Formulas Quick Reference Guide
https://na1.salesforce.com/help/pdfs/en/salesforce_formulas_cheatsheet.pdf
• Useful Validation Rules
http://na1.salesforce.com/help/pdfs/en/salesforce_useful_validation_formulas.pdf
• Building a Cross Object Formula
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?
id=fields_creating_cross_object_advanced.htm&language=en_US

33. Questions?
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SteveMo
@SteveMoForce

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