Text Bucketing Example: Strategic Accounts

Use a text bucket to sort accounts into general categories that you can act on.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
Available in: Enhanced Folder Sharing and Legacy Folder Sharing
User Permissions Needed
To create, edit, and delete reports:
Legacy Folder Sharing
Create and Customize Reports

AND

Report Builder

Enhanced Folder Sharing
Create and Customize Reports

AND

Report Builder

  1. Create or edit a standard account report, making sure at least a few records appear in the report.
  2. In the Fields pane of the report builder, double-click Add Bucket Field or drag it into the report.
  3. For Source Column, select Account Name.
  4. For Bucket Field Name, enter Strategic.
  5. Click New Bucket and name the bucket IBM.
  6. Click New Bucket and name the bucket Dell.
  7. Click New Bucket and name the bucket HP.
  8. To show the available values, leave the Search for values... box empty and click Search.
  9. Select values and drag them into the appropriate buckets.
  10. Enable Show unbucketed values as “Other”.
  11. Click OK.
Edit Bucket Field dialog with the three buckets configured