How to Clone a Report in Salesforce?

Clone Reports in Salesforce

Scenario: ABC Company is expanding business and want to setup a new Salesforce org (Org 2) which is replica of existing Salesforce org (Org 1). In order to replicate, they need to perform multiple activities like:

As both the orgs (Org 1 & Org 2) are not inter-linked to each other, Alex (an administrator of ABC Company), will have to manually copy each and every entities and complete his action.

For eg; if a developer has to clone a salesforce report with 100 columns, its filters and Bucket fields, then admin would have to open each and every report and clone them to new org. These type of work requests would take much more effort and time, but with Bulk Object Field Creator (BOFC) App user can clone multiple reports within “Current Salesforce org” or from any “External Salesforce org” in few clicks.

Benefits of BOFC App to Clone Salesforce Reports:

  1. User can copy any type of Report in salesforce (Custom or Standard)
  2. Along with report, it will also clone “Custom Report Type” and “Report Folder” referenced in report
  3. This feature has option for an user to choose whether they need to (override or skip) any existing components (like report, report type, folder)
  4. Clone Reports copies Report Columns, Report Filters, Bucket Fields, Sort Field, Aggregate fields and many more.
  5. User can clone Reports from Same or External (non-linked) Salesforce org
  6. Simple Point & Click UI only.

Note:

To avail this feature, kindly make sure you have installed the latest version of the application. You can upgrade your package using either of two ways:

  1. In Salesforce, go to “BOFC Home > Settings > App Version > Click to Upgrade” — or —
  2. Refer the below button to quickly upgrade your package to the latest version and explore its complete benefits:

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Few Simple Steps to Clone a Report in Salesforce

1. Open the BOFC Home > Click “Clone Reports”

Clone Reports

2. It will open below screen for BOFC Clone Reports

BOFC Clone Reports

User can clone the Reports from different type of source org:

  • Can clone from “Current Salesforce Org” in which BOFC is installed
  • Can clone from “External Salesforce org” (Salesforce org which are linked / non-linked to current org in which BOFC is installed)

3. Select the “Source Org” from where you want to clone the Report

clone the Report

4. Select the “Source Folder” (from where report needs to cloned)

from where report needs to cloned

5. Next step is to decide the type of action for any existing “Report Types, Report Folder & Reports”

Report Types, Report Folder & Reports

Note: Any entity which is not available will be created. This step relates to “Any existing entity only”. If user has selected:

  • “Clone & Override” – It means the existing entity will be over-written
  • “Clone & No-Override” – It means the existing entity will be Skipped for any changes.

6. Finally we are ready with all the configuration and ready to initiate the process to fetch Source Reports

initiate the process to fetch Source Reports

7. Once this blue button is clicked, it will open a section with a table of Source Reports

table of Source Reports

Select (single or multiple) Source reports which you want to clone and click on blue button “Click here to Initiate Clone

8. Once this blue button is clicked, it will open a popup with some instruction in it. Just follow the instructions and you are done.

Click “Clone” button in the Status Table against each row (one by one)

Click Clone button

Once the “clone” buttons is clicked, it will update the status against each row for all the elements of that type.

update the status against each row

Above image shows that the selected reports has two report types which needs to cloned. When BOFC tried to clone them, it shows the Success or Error Status against each report type.

Once all “Clone” buttons are clicked, you are done with Cloning Reports with all the selected actions.

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