Hi,

We use SalesForce to maintain Account and Contact details, and keep our other internal systems in sync by using Outbound Messages fired on create / modify.  These messages are monitored by an internal process to fetch the data out of SalesForce via the API and update internally.

The problem we have is that we want a delete in SalesForce to flag the record as deleted in our internal systems.

The issues we're hitting are:

Workflows aren't fired on delete (doesn't count as a modify?)

Can't manually trigger an Outbound Message, say in a before delete trigger (this is my assumption, please advise if wrong)

Even if we did manually trigger an OM, once the object is deleted, my testing shows it is removed from the OM queue if not already delivered (=> unreliable)

So, from what I can see we have a couple of options:

1) Allow delete, but have an additional, scheduled process that scans SF looking for records deleted in the last x hours / minutes and update internal systems.

2) Implement some sort of Approval process for deletes, requiring the setting of a non-SF delete flag to tell our internal systems, before allowing delete after manual confirmation of the internal update.

Both of these are quite clunky given the existing processing of creation / updates.  Has anyone been here before?  Got a neat solution?

Cheers,

Neil