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Roll up summary field that calculates values of other roll up summary fields
Hi,
Online help says "Roll-up summary fields cannot calculate the values of other roll-up summary fields except for account to opportunity roll-up summary fields, which allow you to calculate the values of opportunity roll-up summary fields."
I have three objects A, B and C. A is a master of B and B is a master of C. In object B there is a roll-up summary field X that sums the values from the field in C. Despite of what online help says I was able to create a roll-up summary field in object A that sums the values in the field X.
Did I misunderstood something or are there some potential problems if I use roll-up summary field to calculate values of other roll-up summary fields?
Roll-up summary fields are calculated every time an object is inserted or updated.
So every time you create or update a C object X Roll-up summary field will be updated with the new value.
The problem is if A to B Roll-up summary field is updated too or not, despite X will be updated and that should calculate A to B Roll-up summary field
i'm not sure that will happend, or if that could create any conflict.
You can try this, create a new C object, check if X is updated to the new value, and then check if the A to B Roll-up summary field is updated too.
Ignacio.