Groundwire/GWBase — Issue #49: Change Rollup Field Labels to Differentiate Account Fields
Author: mscholtz
Created: 2011-12-19 20:50:13+00:00
State: open
Labels: Idea

Currently running reports that reference rollup fields is confusing, because we have the exact same set of fields with the exact same names on Contact and Account. It becomes very tricky for the user to know whether a field on a report is from contact or org, since SF does not in general include the object name. This is especially hard when selecting fiters.

I propose changing the org field labels to include the string "Org" at the beginning, and leave the contact fields as-is. We should be able to update field labels in managed pkg, although we can't update the names.

The one problem here would be that anyone who had created merge documents and SF email templates against these fields would need to update them. I think it may be still worth doing, as: a) a lot of clients won't have any merge documents against these fields on Account (Contact is much more common), and those that do shouldn't have a lot of them. It may be worth it for those few clients to have to make a few tweaks, in order to make this less confusing permanently for everyone.