How to use Salesforce List Views to organize your Employee data

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You can easily create a different representation or segment data with list views.

There are some examples of how you can use list views:

• All employees who are starting next month.
• A list of pending absences.
• Direct reports of a specific manager.

All these examples can be easily solved with the Salesforce list views.

Let's try with the example of employees starting next month:

1. In your Salesforce Lightning Experience, open an Employee object Tab:

2. Usually, Salesforce shows a special list view called Recently Viewed. You can create and customize a new List View by clicking the gear icon, then in a dropdown menu, choose New.

3.You can define the name of your custom List View to use in the future. In our case, we can name it "Starting next two months."

4. If you are a salesforce administrator, you can set up visibility and sharing settings by deciding which group of users can view this List View. Also, you can change the API name if needed.

5. Now, open a filter by clicking on a funnel icon on the right to define your filter criteria.

6. Choose a field you would like to filter by. Salesforce is smart enough to show different fields type values automatically. For example, it will show picklist values if the type of the field is Picklist. As we want to filter by start date, we need to choose "Start Date."

7. Now, it is time to write a special value for our filter. Salesforce has great functionality by providing filtering with words in your language. For example, we can write "NEXT 2 MONTHS" to filter all employees starting within the next two months.

8. Click Save. You will see that the data in the table was updated.

As you can see, it is not complicated at all but yet powerful. You can also select fields to display and choose which makes sense for your use case.

Let's create another list view for direct reports of a manager.

1. Again, you can create another list view by clicking on list view controls and choosing New in a dropdown menu.

2. Add filter by clicking funnel icon.

3. We will choose another field Manager to filter all direct reports this time. We use equals operator and type name of our manager.

4. Click Save, and we will see all employees of this manager in the list of records.

5. Don't forget to choose visible fields in list view controls.

Filtering, sorting, and showing fields are not the only features of list views. Another powerful and helpful thing is inline editing. Imagine that you need to open a single record in a new tab to edit multiple records! But remember that inline editing works only when all records belong to the same record type.

The list view chart is another exciting feature you can use without going with reports. Yes, you can add a new chart right in the list view. Click on a chart icon and define which one you would like to use.

The list view can be easily integrated into your existing workflow. Once learned, you can use it daily to increase your productivity. Sales reps are already using them a lot in their sales processes, but as we could see, HR and Recruiters can also benefit. Don't forget to set a view name for future selection for a specific list view. If you have many list views, Salesforce offers a search input.

You can manage public list views for a specific group of users. For example, you can create one list view per each job offer. Then you can use a kanban view as well.

List views are not something new in Lightning Experience. They are also available in Salesforce classic. For example, you can see built-in list views in the opportunities tab.

You can learn more about list views by completing several trails in your trailhead.