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Dman100Dman100 

identity equivalent

Is there an apex equivalent of getting the id of a newly inserted record?

 

trigger InsertCaseContact on Case (before update) {

    //Create a new list for caseIds
    List<Id> caseIds = new List<Id>{};
    
    //Loop through the Cases we're adding and build a list of Ids
    for(Case cas: Trigger.new) 
        caseIds.add(cas.Id);
    
    List<Contact> addContacts = new List<Contact>();
 
    // Loop through the Trigger.new array of Cases.
    for(Case cas:Trigger.new){
            if (cas.SuppliedName != null)
            {
                addContacts.add(new Contact (LastName = cas.SuppliedName, Email = cas.SuppliedEmail, Phone = cas.SuppliedPhone));
                
            }
    }
    insert addContacts;
}
 
I'd like to get the id of the newly inserted contact records.


BritishBoyinDCBritishBoyinDC
addContacts is a list...so if you do a for loop on the list after the insert, you can get the Id of the new contacts
 
 


Dman100Dman100
I created a set of ids and looped thru the list, which is now populated with the contact ids.  I want to update the cases and set the case Contact lookup field with the contact ids.
 
trigger InsertCaseContact on Case (before update) {

    //Create a new list for caseIds
    List<Id> caseIds = new List<Id>{};
    
    //Loop through the Cases we're adding and build a list of Ids
    for(Case cas: Trigger.new) 
        caseIds.add(cas.Id);
    
    List<Contact> addContacts = new List<Contact>();
 
    // Loop through the Trigger.new array of Cases.
    for(Case cas:Trigger.new){
            if (cas.SuppliedName != null)
            {
                addContacts.add(new Contact (LastName = cas.SuppliedName, Email = cas.SuppliedEmail, Phone = cas.SuppliedPhone, Email_ExtID__c = cas.SuppliedEmail));
                
            }
    }
    upsert addContacts Email_ExtID__c;
    
    // loop thru contacts to retrieve contact ids
    Set<Id> ConIds = new Set<Id>();
    
    for (Contact c: addContacts)
    {
    	ConIds.add(c.Id);
    }
    
    List<Case> cases = new List<Case>{};
    
    for (Case c : Trigger.new)
    {
    	//c.Contact = ConIds;
    	//cases.add(c);	
    }
    update cases;
}
I'm not correctly assigning the contact ids.  How can I do this?