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before trigger- partial success

if you have an adderror method in a before trigger, will it exist the entire batch if 1 record calls the adderror? if so, how can you partially process those records with an explicit database.update method

kreshokresho

If the update is executed using the update statement, like

 

update listOfRecords;

 then addError on arecord will cause a ValidationException.

 

However if you update using 

Database.SaveResult[] results = Database.update(recordsToUpdate, false);

 then there will be no exception and you will have a chance to examine the results array.

 

Hope this helps,

Kresimir
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Bhawani SharmaBhawani Sharma
You can not do partial insert/update in trigger context. But what all you can do it, use try catch statement and add the error in some field .
Avidev9Avidev9

Just few additions!

 

  • addError method prevents any database operation(due to which trigger spawned) to happen and rollbacks the DML action(due to which trigger spawned), and throws a error msg to the UI. 
  • If you have any other DML statement in your trigger like say "insert Contact" the trigger successfully process that.
  • I dont think you can stop a single record from insertion using addError.
  • You cannot use Database method in trigger context to prevent or block records DML