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Kenn K.Kenn K. 

Prevent Parent Account to be deleted if it has a child account

I am trying to figure out the best way to prevent users from deleting and Account if it has a child account.

So the scenario will be the users will have to delete all the child accounts first before they can delete the parent.

Any guidance will be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

BA_AdminBA_Admin

Sample code which should help you just replace the objectname with Account

 

trigger onParentObjectDelete on CustomObject__c (before delete){
    List<Id> idsToQuery = new List<Id>{};
    for(CustomObject__c a: Trigger.new){
        idsToQuery.add(a.id);
     }

    //query all child records where parent ids were deleted
    ChildObject__c[] objsToDelete = [select id from ChildObject__c where ParentId__c IN :idsToQuery];

    delete objsToDelete; //perform delete statement
}