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Working with Primary Contact in Account Contact Roles
I'm afraid the answer is a big fat "No", but maybe I'm wrong.
Can I really do anything when a Contact is marked as Primary in the Contact Roles list on the Account?
e.g. - I want to pull a field from said Contact into the Account record. Obviously, a formula field would be ideal, but a trigger would probably get the job done if need be. It seems I can't create a trigger on the AccountContactRole object and I don't have the nice lookup option in a formula field on the Account object to get data from the designated Primary Contact.
It would make sense that I should be able to do something with that relationship, but I'm just drawing a blank here.
A workaround would be to add a custom field of Primary Contact as a lookup to Contact on the Account record. Some users find the Contact Roles annoying and I've used this to get round the same issue before, without having to resort to code (coz you can just formula field the rest).
If you can insert into AccountContactRoles, and you could have your trigger automatically create the primary contact for you, if you want to maintain/use both.
Sorry, no other way I know of. As you've found, the AccountContactRole object does not appear in the list of objects when you create a trigger or a workflow.
I suppose if you don't like the Primary Contact Lookup on the Account idea (more below), then your other option is to use scheduled Apex to execute and check records created in AccountContactRole since the last time it ran...?
Just re-read the thread, not sure my idea got across. Previously I've done the following:
HTH.