Unpopulated Fields | All
- Atlas Can
- Nickolette De Clerck
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About This Report
The Unpopulated Fields | All report in Cuneiform for Salesforce identifies all fields within the Salesforce system that have a 0% population rate, providing a comprehensive view of completely unused fields. This insight allows organizations to pinpoint redundant or unutilized fields, facilitating efforts to optimize data structures, improve system performance, and enhance data reliability.
Create a copy of this report and customize it as a starting point for profiling field-results reporting.
The Unpopulated Fields | All report helps to identify unpopulated fields which are critical for maintaining a streamlined and efficient Salesforce environment, as unused fields can clutter data models, slow down system performance, and complicate analytics. For example, a sales team might discover that a "Campaign Notes" field is entirely unpopulated, allowing them to remove it or repurpose it for a more relevant use case, such as tracking campaign ROI.
Customizing This Report
The Unpopulated Fields | All report uses a set of specific filters to refine and target the profiling results displayed. These filters are critical in isolating the most relevant data fields across different Salesforce objects such as Account, Case, and Lead. For example, you can change the Profiling Field Results records based on their Created Date field.
Editing Filter Criteria
You can change the filters by clicking the Filter icon in the report. The opened menu shows which filters are locked that come with each report. You can change these unlocked filters according to your needs and can also add additional filters by clicking the Edit button.
Here’s an overview of the filters applied to this report by default:
Show Me: Displays all profiling field results, ensuring a comprehensive analysis of Salesforce objects without excluding any data.
Created Date (Fields): Set to "All Time," including fields created at any point, offering a historical and current perspective.
Is Latest Summary: Set to "True," ensuring only the most recent profiling summaries are considered for up-to-date insights.
Record Type: Displays fields categorized as "Profiling Field," narrowing the focus to specifically analyzed data fields.
Profiling Definition Category: Set to "Baseline," emphasizing profiling results from the baseline category, often reflecting standard profiling benchmarks.
Profiling Definition Record Type: Limited to "CRM," targeting fields within Salesforce CRM objects for more relevant analysis.
Is System Field: Set to "False," excluding system fields to concentrate on user-created or custom fields.
Is Field Empty (Primary): Set to "True," filtering for fields with a 0% population rate, focusing the analysis on entirely unused fields.
Adding Fields to the Report
This section guides how to customize the Unpopulated Fields | All report by editing and adding fields, enhancing the report’s relevance and detail for specific organizational requirements.
Open the Unpopulated Fields | All report in your Salesforce environment and click the Edit button.
Select Fields on the left to open the list of all fields available on the object.
Use the Search all fields… option at the top of the Select Fields on the left to open the list of all fields available on the object panel to find specific fields you want to include in the report.
Double-click fields to add them to the list of columns appearing in the report, and drag and drop fields within the Columns list to change their order. You can also drag and drop fields from the list of fields to the Columns list.
Once you have finished editing and adding fields:
Click the Save button to preserve your changes.
To update the report contents based on any changes you made, click Run. This will generate the report based on the current set of filters and fields you’ve configured.
This approach allows users to tailor the Unpopulated Fields | All report to meet specific data assessment needs, ensuring that the report serves as an effective tool for data management and governance within Salesforce.