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ColaCola 

Auto-Renewing Contracts

Hi Guys,

We are going to be switching our contracts in SFDC to be auto-renewing, so every year, right before the contract expires, we want to auto-generate an identical contract with all the same info but updated start and end dates. I'm assuming this is possible via a trigger?

Thanks!
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Shashikant SharmaShashikant Sharma
Yes It could be done by trigger but in that case you need some action on record to fire the  trigger code. Such as a time based event on record that when Enddate == today a field Renewal__c becomes true and a clone of contract is created.

A better option could be that you run a Daily Schedule which checkes records ending today and renew them. 

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_scheduler.htm