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Soubhagya Ranjan 2Soubhagya Ranjan 2 

prevent duplicate record

Hi I want to prevent duplicate value in account .I have written folowing trigger . but every time i created a new record it is showing error that you can not create duplicate record .

trigger AccountDuplicateTrigger on Account (before insert,before update) {
        for(Account a:Trigger.new)
        {
            List<Account> acc=[select ID,name from account where Name=:a.Name ];
            if(acc.size()>0)
            {
                a.adderror('You cannot create a dulplicate account');
            }
        }
    }
Akhil AnilAkhil Anil
Hi Soubhagya,

Rather than writing a trigger you can use the duplicate management feature to prevent duplicate records in Salesforce.

The below link will help you setup the native duplicate management feature.

https://resources.docs.salesforce.com/200/10/en-us/sfdc/pdf/salesforce_data_quality_duplicate_prevention.pdf
Deepak Pandey 13Deepak Pandey 13

trigger AccountDuplicateTrigger on Account (before insert,before update) {
map<id,Account> oldmapacc = new map<id,Account>();
        for(Account a:Trigger.new)
        {
            if(oldmapacc .get(a.id).Name == a.Name.)
            {
                a.adderror('You cannot create a dulplicate account');
            }
        }
    }
try this.
GovindarajGovindaraj
trigger duplicateTrigger on Account(before insert,before update)
{
    set<string> accSet = new set<string>();
    for(Account a1 : trigger.new)
    {
        accSet.add(a1.Name);
    }
    list<Account> accList = [SELECT id from Account WHERE Name IN : accSet];
    
    for(Account a2 : trigger.new)
    {
        if(accList.size() > 0)
        {
            a2.Name.addError('Duplicate account name');
        }
    }
}
Amit Chaudhary 8Amit Chaudhary 8
Hi Soubhagya Ranjan 2,

I found below issue in your code
1) SOQL inside for loop
2) In case of update also you are checking same in query due to that error is coming

Try below code If you want on before insert only
trigger AccountDuplicate on Account (before insert)
{

	Set<String> setName = new Set<String>();
	For(Account acc : trigger.new)
	{
		setName.add(acc.name);
	}
	
	if(setName.size() > 0 )
	{
		List<Account> lstAccount = [select name ,id from account where name in :setName ];
		
		Map<String ,Account> mapNameWiseAccount = new Map<String,Account>();
		For(Account acc: lstAccount)
		{
			mapNameWiseAccount.put(acc.name ,acc);
		}
		
		For(Account acc : trigger.new)
		{
			if(mapNameWiseAccount.containsKey(acc.name))
			{
				acc.Name.addError('Name already Exist ');
			}
		}
		
	}
}


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1) One Trigger Per Object
A single Apex Trigger is all you need for one particular object. If you develop multiple Triggers for a single object, you have no way of controlling the order of execution if those Triggers can run in the same contexts

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