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ArikArik 

Trigger to Create Event from Task

I am trying to write a trigger, that will, in effect turn a task into an event in sfdc as follows:

 

1.  Make a check box on task (Custom field called "turn into event")

2.  When checkbox is checked, a trigger is activated to create a new event.

3.  This event is populated with the data from the task that starts it.

4.  Then the old task is deleted.

 

Thanks in advance

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Navatar_DbSupNavatar_DbSup

Hi,

 

I have written a small trigger for this made changes accordingly. You can write your trigger for bulk handling.Please go through this code as reference:


trigger CreateEvent on Task (after insert,after update)
{
task ta=trigger.new[0];
if(ta.CreateEvent__c==true)
{
task ta1=trigger.old[0];
Datetime startDateTime=Datetime.newInstance(ta1.activitydate, Time.newInstance(12, 0, 0, 0));
Datetime endDateTime=Datetime.newInstance(ta1.activitydate, Time.newInstance(12, 0, 0, 0));
Event e=new event(OwnerId = ta1.ownerid,Subject = ta1.Subject,StartDateTime = startDateTime,EndDatetime = endDateTime,WhoId = ta1.whoid);
insert e;
task t=new task(id=ta1.id);
delete t;
}
}

 

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Navatar_DbSupNavatar_DbSup

Hi,

 

I have written a small trigger for this made changes accordingly. You can write your trigger for bulk handling.Please go through this code as reference:


trigger CreateEvent on Task (after insert,after update)
{
task ta=trigger.new[0];
if(ta.CreateEvent__c==true)
{
task ta1=trigger.old[0];
Datetime startDateTime=Datetime.newInstance(ta1.activitydate, Time.newInstance(12, 0, 0, 0));
Datetime endDateTime=Datetime.newInstance(ta1.activitydate, Time.newInstance(12, 0, 0, 0));
Event e=new event(OwnerId = ta1.ownerid,Subject = ta1.Subject,StartDateTime = startDateTime,EndDatetime = endDateTime,WhoId = ta1.whoid);
insert e;
task t=new task(id=ta1.id);
delete t;
}
}

 

Did this answer your question? If not, let me know what didn't work, or if so, please mark it solved. 

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ArikArik

Thank you very much - You Are a Genious !!!!

Small Question - how do i make the "all day event" box be checked instead of based on a time ?

Thanks in advance
ArikArik

I am getting this error....Help:

 

CreateEvent   Test coverage of selected Apex Trigger is 0%, at least 1% test coverage is required
Deploy Error   Average test coverage across all Apex Classes and Triggers is 72%, at least 75% test coverage is required.