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APEX Help: Populate Lookup Field based on Text field
Hi Experts,
I hope you could assist me creating a code to auto populate a Lookup field based on a Text field. This text field will always contain the ID of a Lead. The custom Object and Lead doesn't have a direct relationship. The text field will be populated manually
Details:
Object: Cloud File (Custom)
Text Field: Text__c (Residing in Cloud File)
Lookup Field: Lead__c
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
I hope you could assist me creating a code to auto populate a Lookup field based on a Text field. This text field will always contain the ID of a Lead. The custom Object and Lead doesn't have a direct relationship. The text field will be populated manually
Details:
Object: Cloud File (Custom)
Text Field: Text__c (Residing in Cloud File)
Lookup Field: Lead__c
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
You can easily achieve this with the help of a workflow rule.
Create a workflow rule and than add a field update in it.
If you want to go with a trigger than please use the below trigger code on Cloud File object :
Please let me know if you need more help on this or if you have any issue with the above code.
Thanks,
Abhishek Bansal
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You can easily achieve this with the help of a workflow rule.
Create a workflow rule and than add a field update in it.
If you want to go with a trigger than please use the below trigger code on Cloud File object :
Please let me know if you need more help on this or if you have any issue with the above code.
Thanks,
Abhishek Bansal
I don't think workflow rule would work on this since Workflow Rule Field Updates can't dynamically set Lookup() field values and it doesn't allow me to select a lookup field on field updates.
Another question, how can I bulkify that code?
Thank you again for helping me out.
Yes you are right you cannot set the value of a lookup field from field update.
Answering to your second question, the code provided by me is already bulkified.
Dont be tensed about it and go ahead with my code.
Thanks,
Abhishek