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Saravana RavikumarSaravana Ravikumar 

What are the list of actions that causes a before trigger to fire by default for Accounts ?

Mohammad Inamullah SheikhMohammad Inamullah Sheikh
For the Account object, the following actions can cause a before trigger to fire by default:
Insert: When a new Account record is being inserted into the database.
Update: When an existing Account record is being updated.
Delete: When an Account record is being deleted.
Undelete: When a previously deleted Account record is being restored.
Eden WheelerEden Wheeler
In Salesforce, the before triggers for Accounts fire by default when certain actions are performed. Here is a list of actions that can cause a before trigger to fire for Accounts:
  • Insert: When a new Account record is being created and inserted into the database, the before trigger will fire before the record is saved.
  • Update: When an existing Account record is being updated with new data, the before trigger will fire before the changes are saved.
  • Upsert: When using the upsert operation to either insert or update an Account record, the before trigger will fire before the operation is performed.
  • Merge: When two or more Account records are being merged into a single record, the before trigger will fire before the merge operation is executed.
  • Import: When importing multiple Account records into Salesforce using the data import functionality, the before trigger will fire before the records are imported and saved.
It's important to note that these actions can be customized and additional triggers can be defined to fire before specific operations on the Account object. However, the default behavior of before triggers is to fire on the actions mentioned above.azure administrator (https://www.igmguru.com/cloud-computing/microsoft-azure-administrator-az-103-certification-training/)
SubratSubrat (Salesforce Developers) 
Hello Saravana ,

Before triggers are used to update or validate record values before they're saved to the database. After triggers are used to access field values that are set by the system (such as a record's Id or LastModifiedDate field), and to affect changes in other records. The records that fire the after trigger are read-only.

References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/apex_triggers/apex_triggers_intro#:~:text=Before%20triggers%20are%20used%20to,after%20trigger%20are%20read%2Donly.

https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/?id=9062I000000QuDUQA0

https://intellipaat.com/blog/tutorial/salesforce-tutorial/triggers-in-salesforce/


Hope this helps !
Thank you.