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Axel Duhême Delete Trigger: Update records instead of Deleting them
Hi,
I'm trying to set up a trigger so that when a user deletes a contact, it is updated (with a True value in the Inactive__c checkbox) instead of being deleted.
The use case here is that when a user deletes a contact from their Outlook address book, I want it to remain in the database as inactive after Salesforce for Outlook / Lightning Sync triggers the delete.
Of course, I would include an excpetion in the trigger sor that User with the admin profile can properly delete records.
Hope someone can help!
Axel.
I'm trying to set up a trigger so that when a user deletes a contact, it is updated (with a True value in the Inactive__c checkbox) instead of being deleted.
The use case here is that when a user deletes a contact from their Outlook address book, I want it to remain in the database as inactive after Salesforce for Outlook / Lightning Sync triggers the delete.
Of course, I would include an excpetion in the trigger sor that User with the admin profile can properly delete records.
Hope someone can help!
Axel.
The algorithm is a bit weird but it works in my DE org.
The records get actually deleted , but the trigger undeletes them , and finally updates them with the flag.
Notice I had to use a @future method, because if you run all that synchronously, you stay in the original transaction and SF tells you that you cannot undelete a record that was just deleted
APex Trigger
trigger Test on Contact (after delete) { TestUndelete.updateDeleted(Trigger.oldMap); }Apex Classpublic class TestUndelete { public static void updateDeleted(Map<Id,Object> mapOfIds) { //Converting map of IDs to list of IDs because Maps not supported by future methods List<Id> listOfIds =new List<Id>(); listOfIds.addAll(mapOfIds.keySet()); updateDeletedFuture(listOfIds); } @future public static void updateDeletedFuture(List<Id> listOfIds) { //Method receiving list of IDs because Maps not supported by future methods //Undeleting the records that were just deleted List<Contact> myList = [Select Id,Inactive__c FROM Contact WHERE Id IN :listOfIds ALL ROWS]; undelete myList; //Flagging the records for (Contact c : myList) { c.Inactive__c = true; } //Finally updating the records to get them flagged update myList; } }