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Jamies DSXJamies DSX 

Ability to use formulas fields with data from children objects

One of my biggest wants in SalesForce.com is the ability to create a formula field that tabulates information from children objects. For example, a formula field on an Account called Total Won Opportunity Value that would sum the value of all Won opportunities. For us, this ability would be especially useful on tabulating usage data that is stored in Custom Objects. Out integration create a custom object for every transation a customer has with our product. The ability to tally that on the account would be indispensable.

I'd love to know if this is going to be in the October release.

Message Edited by Jamies DSX on 07-11-2006 09:47 AM

benjasikbenjasik
This is on our roadmap, although I can't say which release it will be in.  As you say, it's highly useful, and we have many customers who have requested this.  If you haven't logged a feature request for this specifically, please do so.
Jamies DSXJamies DSX
Done. Thanks Benji.

In the meantime we plan to develop a nightly cron job that tabulates that data and updates a custom field on the parent object.