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GOPIKRISHNAN CHANDRASEKARANGOPIKRISHNAN CHANDRASEKARAN 

Before Trigger Operation

Hi, Please can anyone let me know if it is possible to update a record of same object in a single transaction using a before Trigger? I think it is not possible in a after trigger. Please can you let me know?

I have also tried this with the below test trigger and it throwed me an error.

trigger AccountTrigger on Account (Before insert)
{
    account a = new account();
    a.industry = 'Agriculture';
    Update(a);
}
Best Answer chosen by GOPIKRISHNAN CHANDRASEKARAN
Amit Chaudhary 8Amit Chaudhary 8

Please try below code :-
trigger AccountTrigger on Account (Before insert)
{
    for (Account acc : Trigger.new) 
	{
		acc.Industry = 'Agriculture';
    }
}
Please check below post for Trigger Best pratice
1) http://amitsalesforce.blogspot.in/2015/06/trigger-best-practices-sample-trigger.html

1) One Trigger Per Object
A single Apex Trigger is all you need for one particular object. If you develop multiple Triggers for a single object, you have no way of controlling the order of execution if those Triggers can run in the same contexts

2) Logic-less Triggers
If you write methods in your Triggers, those can’t be exposed for test purposes. You also can’t expose logic to be re-used anywhere else in your org. 

3) Context-Specific Handler Methods
Create context-specific handler methods in Trigger handlers

4) Bulkify your Code
Bulkifying Apex code refers to the concept of making sure the code properly handles more than one record at a time.

5) Avoid SOQL Queries or DML statements inside FOR Loops
An individual Apex request gets a maximum of 100 SOQL queries before exceeding that governor limit. So if this trigger is invoked by a batch of more than 100 Account records, the governor limit will throw a runtime exception

6) Using Collections, Streamlining Queries, and Efficient For Loops
It is important to use Apex Collections to efficiently query data and store the data in memory. A combination of using collections and streamlining SOQL queries can substantially help writing efficient Apex code and avoid governor limits

7) Querying Large Data Sets
The total number of records that can be returned by SOQL queries in a request is 50,000. If returning a large set of queries causes you to exceed your heap limit, then a SOQL query for loop must be used instead. It can process multiple batches of records through the use of internal calls to query and queryMore

8) Use @future Appropriately
It is critical to write your Apex code to efficiently handle bulk or many records at a time. This is also true for asynchronous Apex methods (those annotated with the @future keyword). The differences between synchronous and asynchronous Apex can be found

9) Avoid Hardcoding IDs
When deploying Apex code between sandbox and production environments, or installing Force.com AppExchange packages, it is essential to avoid hardcoding IDs in the Apex code. By doing so, if the record IDs change between environments, the logic can dynamically identify the proper data to operate against and not fail

Let us know if this will help you

Thanks
Amit Chaudhary

All Answers

sandhya reddy 10sandhya reddy 10
Hi Gopikrishnan,

Please try below code.
trigger AccountTrigger on Account (Before insert)
{
    for (Account updatedAccount : Trigger.new) {
                updatedAccount.Industry = 'Agriculture';

    }

}

Please let us know if this help you.

Thanks and Regards
sandhya
Amit Chaudhary 8Amit Chaudhary 8

Please try below code :-
trigger AccountTrigger on Account (Before insert)
{
    for (Account acc : Trigger.new) 
	{
		acc.Industry = 'Agriculture';
    }
}
Please check below post for Trigger Best pratice
1) http://amitsalesforce.blogspot.in/2015/06/trigger-best-practices-sample-trigger.html

1) One Trigger Per Object
A single Apex Trigger is all you need for one particular object. If you develop multiple Triggers for a single object, you have no way of controlling the order of execution if those Triggers can run in the same contexts

2) Logic-less Triggers
If you write methods in your Triggers, those can’t be exposed for test purposes. You also can’t expose logic to be re-used anywhere else in your org. 

3) Context-Specific Handler Methods
Create context-specific handler methods in Trigger handlers

4) Bulkify your Code
Bulkifying Apex code refers to the concept of making sure the code properly handles more than one record at a time.

5) Avoid SOQL Queries or DML statements inside FOR Loops
An individual Apex request gets a maximum of 100 SOQL queries before exceeding that governor limit. So if this trigger is invoked by a batch of more than 100 Account records, the governor limit will throw a runtime exception

6) Using Collections, Streamlining Queries, and Efficient For Loops
It is important to use Apex Collections to efficiently query data and store the data in memory. A combination of using collections and streamlining SOQL queries can substantially help writing efficient Apex code and avoid governor limits

7) Querying Large Data Sets
The total number of records that can be returned by SOQL queries in a request is 50,000. If returning a large set of queries causes you to exceed your heap limit, then a SOQL query for loop must be used instead. It can process multiple batches of records through the use of internal calls to query and queryMore

8) Use @future Appropriately
It is critical to write your Apex code to efficiently handle bulk or many records at a time. This is also true for asynchronous Apex methods (those annotated with the @future keyword). The differences between synchronous and asynchronous Apex can be found

9) Avoid Hardcoding IDs
When deploying Apex code between sandbox and production environments, or installing Force.com AppExchange packages, it is essential to avoid hardcoding IDs in the Apex code. By doing so, if the record IDs change between environments, the logic can dynamically identify the proper data to operate against and not fail

Let us know if this will help you

Thanks
Amit Chaudhary
This was selected as the best answer
GOPIKRISHNAN CHANDRASEKARANGOPIKRISHNAN CHANDRASEKARAN
Thanks Sandhya & Amit. This really helps me to understand.
GOPIKRISHNAN CHANDRASEKARANGOPIKRISHNAN CHANDRASEKARAN
Thanks Amit. It really helps.