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mDizz_7 Tracking History the hard way
Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to developing and my org has just run accross a problem. We need to track history on product changes within the Opporunitiy. I know this is not supported nativly. My thought is that we can run a trigger and populate a list of changes. However I'm not sure where to start on this. Any references or advice would be helpful. Thanks in advance!
You'll need a trigger on OpportunityLineItem that covers inserts, updates, and deletes. Fairly straightforward, but if you're just getting started, it is a significant amount of work.
Here are resources for getting started on writing triggers:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Documentation
And you will need to write unit tests to deploy your code to production:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/How_to_Write_Good_Unit_Tests
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Not sure if this works here but you can track history, i think, any field in salesforce. In fact i just checked and we have Staging History on our Opporunities, which sound like what you want.
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You can use a custom object. i did some similar with time traking. for this, i would create the object with a large text box. then create a trigger on opportunity that on insert create its child custome object. then you can just write out the changes in the test field.
Please clarify - are you saying that you are using Products with your Opportunities, and that if a Product is added or removed from an Opp, you want to track that change in a field in the Opp?
Sorry to delay, I really appreciate the help. To clarify, We are using products in our opportunities and we need to track the history of the changes to the prioducts within that same opportunity.
You'll need a trigger on OpportunityLineItem that covers inserts, updates, and deletes. Fairly straightforward, but if you're just getting started, it is a significant amount of work.
Here are resources for getting started on writing triggers:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Documentation
And you will need to write unit tests to deploy your code to production:
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/How_to_Write_Good_Unit_Tests