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SainSain 

I have to count a child records on parent object by using trigger

Hi All,

I have a two objects like doctor(parent) and patient(child), my scenario is i have to count a child records on parent object by using trigger.

(using rollup summary we can achieve this but i have to achieve with trigger)

please any one help me with code for this scenario.

Thanks in advance!!!
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sweetzsweetz
Please refer this for your requirement

http://www.sundoginteractive.com/sunblog/posts/rollup-summary-with-a-lookup-field-salesforce

http://cloudskc.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/custom-roll-up-summary-field-via-apex/ (http://www.sundoginteractive.com/sunblog/posts/rollup-summary-with-a-lookup-field-salesforce)

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sweetzsweetz
Please refer this for your requirement

http://www.sundoginteractive.com/sunblog/posts/rollup-summary-with-a-lookup-field-salesforce

http://cloudskc.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/custom-roll-up-summary-field-via-apex/ (http://www.sundoginteractive.com/sunblog/posts/rollup-summary-with-a-lookup-field-salesforce)


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Deepak Kumar ShyoranDeepak Kumar Shyoran
Then you need to write a trigger on child object which will update it's parent field which hold the count for the child every time when a new child is created/updated/deleted/undeleted

This will update corresponding parent from the child records every time when an event is fired on child object.