Tim Alsop had a great idea that he posted to the Idea Exchange.  

How many times have you seen a list view of related data and had to add it up by yourself?  Think about it.  There are probably a lot of places this could be helpful.

It seems likely that such a function would happen maybe within two parts of the setup process.  Maybe a checkbox on Field setup that says to allow totalling if it’s a numeric field.  Then maybe in the Edit mode of your View, you could select any number of “totallable” fields to be totalled on the View layout.  Now the trick is, could it handle pagination.  Suppose there are 550 records, how much would it total and where would it put it?  If you have any ideas, please add them to this idea when you head over there.  

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I want to give a “bump” to this idea sent my way from Johan in Sweden.  Originally posted by jkubi, this idea centers on the idea of giving some semblance of order to the Setup options.  Right now, I’d be hard pressed to explain for sure why it looks the way it does.

I’m not sure alphabetizing is the best way, but there needs to be some method to the madness.  I echo Johan’s sentiment that an “Object” view might be helpful to see all your standard and custom objects together.  I’m a fan of color and grouping similar functions by color might help some.

If you’ve got ideas on how to make Setup more user/admin friendly, please add your comments to the Idea Exchange and help vote it up!

Kudos to Aaron for posting this Idea.

When you create a dashboard component from a Summary Report, you often times want to see not only the parts which made up that report, but you’d like to see a grand total tool.

While it was noted that you can create another dashboard component and put it directly beneath your first component to list the grand total, it would be great to not have to waste another component for it, let alone make changes to two reports when you need to tweak it.

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