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mattjones99 Can I get related list items that match the parent item based on some field?
Let's say I have two objects, Parent and Child, where Child is a related list of Parent.
I can write a query to get all children named 'One' from all parents. And this works.
SELECT Name, (SELECT Name FROM Child__r WHERE Name = 'One') FROM Parent__c
But, what if I wanted to get all children with the same name as their parent?
I think this would look something like:
SELECT Name, (SELECT Name FROM Child__r WHERE Name = Parent__r.Name) FROM Parent__c
But this is always returning a malformed query exception where Parent__r is an unexpected token. Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do? Or do I have to get the parents, then make a separate query for each parent to get the children that match that parents' name?
You can't do that I'm afraid - the right hand side of the comparison has to be a literal, so you can't use other fields from the query.
Depending on the volumes, I often retrieve the parents and all their children, then do the checks when processing the data. The problem with retrieving the parents and then the children is that you'll stand a good chance of running out of SOQL calls.
Hi mattjones99,
Yes you cannot query in that way in SOQL.
But you can do this by a trick to avoid script statements in your class.
Create a formula field on Child Object which compares child and Parent names return some string like YES/NO and use that field in the query.
Example:
isNameEqual__c (TEXT) : if(Name = Parent.Name, 'YES', 'NO')
in Query use:
SELECT Name, (SELECT Name FROM Child__r WHERE isNameEqual__c= 'YES') FROM Parent__c
Hope this solves ur problem..
Regards,
Shravan