Freedom from Organization: Corporate Edition http://freedomfromorganization.com/corporate Creative ways to save time and money, especially for corporations. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:48:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en 1667723http://www.feedburner.com Custom Formula: Specify Account Time Zone [Salesforce.com] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FreedomFromOrganizationCorporateEdition/~3/237462373/ http://freedomfromorganization.com/corporate/custom-formula-specify-account-time-zone-salesforcecom/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:51:58 +0000 Marina Martin http://freedomfromorganization.com/corporate/custom-formula-specify-account-time-zone-salesforcecom/ If you have a list of accounts to call, it’s useful to sort them by time zone so you know which accounts need to be called first/last.

The following custom formula field assigns a time zone based on the state or province. For states/provinces in multiple time zones, it assigns the time zone of the majority of that region. (In other words, it may be off by an hour in some places, but it does the trick.)

IF(LEN( BillingState)=0, “None”,
IF(CONTAINS(”CT:DC:DE:FL:GA:IN:ME:MD:MA:MI:NH:NJ:NY:NC:OH:PA:RI:SC:VT:VA:WV:ON:QC:NB:NS:NL:PE”, BillingState), “GMT-5 Eastern”,
IF(CONTAINS(”AL:AR:IL:IA:KS:KY:LA:MN:MS:MO:NE:ND:OK:SD:TN:TX:WI:SK:MB:NU”, BillingState), “GMT-6 Central”,
IF(CONTAINS(”AZ:CO:ID:MT:NM:UT:WY:AB:NT”, BillingState), “GMT-7 Mountain”,
IF(CONTAINS(”AK”, BillingState), “GMT-9 Alaska”,
IF(CONTAINS(”HI”, BillingState), “GMT-10 Hawaii”,
IF(CONTAINS(”CA:NV:OR:WA:BC:YT”, BillingState), “GMT-8 Pacific”, “Other”)))))))
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