Breakdown Source Field

[Edwin Fuller]

Is there a reason why the "Field" is restricted to reference fields only when creating new Breakdowns Sources?

[Michael Fry1]

It should be restricted to fields that have choices so you can breakdown the sources by the different choices.

[Adam Stout · Accepted solution]

Breakdowns are stored by sys_id so they have to have one.  References, of course, have a sys_id.  If you need to breakdown by a choice, you breakdown source will be sys_choice (you should find several examples out of the box).  For numbers, you'll want to look at buckets (which then have a source on pa_buckets).  You can also use manual breakdowns but I highly discourage this as it is often masking a data structure problem.