--- title: "Advice Column: Customize Last Activity Field Combining Events & Tasks" description: Want to improve Salesforce's default Last Activity reporting? The Rollup Helper app can combine Tasks and Events into one field for Accounts and Contacts image: https://www.passagetechnology.com/hubfs/ASK%20PT%20gif15.gif --- [GET DEMO](https://www.passagetechnology.com/any-product-one-on-one) **+1 (224) 655-6779 [![Trusted Salesforce service partner Passage Technology](https://www.passagetechnology.com/hubfs/2021/Nav-header-logo_PT.png) ](https://www.passagetechnology.com) # Ask PT About Salesforce's “Last Activity” Field 2023/03/01 [![Free Salesforce business guides to help admins/developers, project managers, sales managers, and decision makers. Download the free PDF series now: Reinventing Your Business, Reimagining Your Salesforce®.](https://www.passagetechnology.com/hubfs/2021/Essential-Salesforce-Guide_Helper-Suite.png) ](https://www.passagetechnology.com/en/essential-guide-for-salesforce-admins-developers) *Dear PT, * *At our company, we are having difficulties leveraging the default configuration for the Last Activity field in our Salesforce® org. We are looking for a convenient and efficient way for RevOps team members to know what happened in our last contact with a customer, but it’s difficult since activities are split into both Tasks and Events. And it would be nice if we didn’t have to spend time on coding and ongoing maintenance to achieve this. Can you help?* *C. Last in NOLA* Dear C, There is an easy way to address this issue—[Rollup Helper](https://www.passagetechnology.com/rollup-helper-overview) to the rescue! You can aggregate the latest completed Task or Event date for any Object. Using a simple formula and two specialized rollups, you can display this Last Activity field on any page layout, most likely an Account or Contact page (or both). You can also hide this field from some people, if you choose to do so. Get the specifics on [how to customize the Last Activity field](https://www.passagetechnology.com/rollup-helper-use-cases/2014/4/29/last-activity-taskevent-date). Sincerely, PT *** Check out other [Ask PT advice columns](https://www.passagetechnology.com/passage-technology-blog/tag/ask-pt). [Submit your own question to PT](https://www.passagetechnology.com/en/ask-pt). You may see it used in a future installment in this series. 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