# How to highlight rows and total amounts in Salesforce list views

> The Highlights and totals for Salesforce template colours list view rows by rule (won deals, close dates coming up, big amounts) and adds a totals row that adds up the Amount column.

Published 2026-09-30, updated 2026-09-30 · Salesforce · https://skins.dev/blog/salesforce-highlight-totals/

Asked for since 12 December 2014: Salesforce IdeaExchange ("Conditional Highlighting for List Views"), https://ideas.salesforce.com/s/idea/a0B8W00000Gdd1qUAB/conditional-highlighting-for-list-views (12,680 points from 1,270 votes (and 2,710 points for "Sum or Average ability on Numeric Rows in List Views")).

**Lightning list views show every row the same way and never add anything up: to see which deals close this month or what the pipeline in a list is worth, you build a report. The Highlights and totals for Salesforce template colours rows by rule and adds a totals row under the list, in your own browser.**

## Steps

1. In Skins Studio, open **Explore**, pick **Highlights and totals for Salesforce** and click **Create App**.
2. Open a list view in Lightning, such as All Opportunities. Open the **Skins** side panel from the browser toolbar. The skin is listed under **On this page**.
3. Switch it on. Won deals turn green, close dates in the next 30 days turn amber, and amounts of 100,000 or more are bold.
4. Look under the last row: the totals row adds up the Amount column and shows the number of records and the average.

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## What you get

- Rows and cells coloured by rule: green for Closed Won, amber for a close date in the next 30 days, bold for big amounts.
- A totals row under the list with the sum of the Amount column, the number of records and the average.
- Amounts read in your locale, whether the list shows "93.000,00 €" or "€93,000.00", and the total in the same format.

## Limits

- The rules are part of the template: change the colours, the stages, the 30 days or the 100,000 in Studio.
- The total adds up the rows the list has loaded. Lightning loads a list 50 rows at a time, so scroll to the end of a long list first, or use the Record count template to see how many there are.
- It totals currency and number columns. It doesn't convert between currencies: in a multi-currency org, filter the list to one currency first.
- The colours are yours: colleagues who don't use the skin see the list as it is.

## Other options

- **Reports**: summary reports add totals and averages, and conditional highlighting colours report cells.
- **Conditional Field Formatting**: in Setup, an admin can colour fields on Lightning record pages by rule. It applies to record pages, not list views.
- **Kanban view**: a list view's Kanban shows the total amount for each stage.
- **List view charts**: the chart button next to the list shows a sum by a field.
- **Ask Salesforce**: upvote the idea. Its status is Open, as is the one for sums and averages.

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