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Create account object from contact fields

I'm pretty new to salesforce so I was wondering if the following is possible. When a new contact is being created, is it possible to use some custom fields on that contact object to generate a new account and then relate the contact to it. I'm guessing this could be done using an Apex trigger. If anyone has any pointers or sample code, I would apprecaite it.

 

Thanks,

Phillip

IanRIanR

Hi,

 

I wrote this on creating triggers in visualforce.com...

 

 

It'll be something like:

 

 

trigger CreateAccount on Contact (after insert) {
    Map<Id, Account> accountMap = new Map<Id, Account>();
    Set<Id> contactIds = new Set<Id>();
    for (Contact c : trigger.new) {
        contactIds.add(c.Id);
    }
    List<Contact> allContacts = [SELECT Id, FirstName, LastName FROM Contact WHERE Id in: contactIds];
    for (Contact c : allContacts) {
        Account a = new Account();
        // Set account properties here
        a.Name = c.FirstName + ' ' + c.LastName;
        accountMap.put(c.Id, a);
    }
    insert accountMap.values();
 
    for (Contact c : allContacts) {
        Account a = accountMap.get(c.Id);
        if (a != null)
            c.AccountId = a.Id;
    }
    update allContacts;
}
 
 
HTH,  Ian