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Example: Use WITHOUT in Cross Filters
Use cross filters to filter a report by an object's child objects using WITHOUT conditions. For example, filter a report to show just contacts without activities.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| Available in: Enhanced Folder Sharing |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To add edit, or delete a cross filter in private reports: |
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| To add edit, or delete a cross filter in private and public reports: |
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Let's say that you've imported a list of California accounts and you want to find which ones are missing contacts before you assign owners:
- Find Accounts with Missing Contacts in the Lightning Experience Report Builder
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- Edit or create a report based on the Accounts report type.
- Create a filter where Billing State/Province equals CA and click
OK.
Now your report shows all accounts in California. To see Californian accounts without contacts, let’s add a cross filter: Accounts without Contacts.
- Click
| Add Cross Filter. - From the Show Me dropdown, select Accounts.
- From the Operator dropdown, select without.
- From the Secondary Object dropdown, select Contacts.
- Click Apply.
- Click Save.
- Find Accounts with Missing Contacts in the Salesforce Classic Report Builder
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- Edit or create a report based on the Accounts report type.
- Create a field filter where Billing State/Province equals CA and
click OK.
Now your report shows all accounts in California. To see Californian accounts without contacts, let’s add a cross filter: Accounts without Contacts.
- From the Filters pane, click Add | Cross Filter.
- From the Primary Object dropdown (left of the operator), choose Accounts.
- From the operator dropdown, choose without.
- From the Secondary Object dropdown (right of the operator), choose Contacts.
- Click OK.
- Click Save.
When you run the report, the results include only California accounts without an associated contact.

