I am diving into my first Apex trigger creation, and I'm hoping someone out there has some sample code that I can drop in.  We rely heavily on account hierarchies, and I'm writing some triggers to automatically update a few fields across the entire hierarchy when a user changes a value on one account in a family.  The starting point of this trigger is therefore being able to traverse the entire account family, and get a Set of IDs to update that represent all the accounts in that account family.  Our hierarchies can be fairly deep -- sometimes as many as 3 or 4 levels, and I'd like the code to be able to work from anywhere in the hierarchy and update ALL related accounts.

Does anyone have a sample that would take a single account ID as its input and return a set of IDs for all accounts in the family?  It would be a huge time saver.

I'll be sure to post my finished trigger for all to use when it's done!

Thanks in advance.

I am diving into my first Apex trigger creation, and I'm hoping someone out there has some sample code that I can drop in.  We rely heavily on account hierarchies, and I'm writing some triggers to automatically update a few fields across the entire hierarchy when a user changes a value on one account in a family.  The starting point of this trigger is therefore being able to traverse the entire account family, and get a Set of IDs to update that represent all the accounts in that account family.  Our hierarchies can be fairly deep -- sometimes as many as 3 or 4 levels, and I'd like the code to be able to work from anywhere in the hierarchy and update ALL related accounts.

Does anyone have a sample that would take a single account ID as its input and return a set of IDs for all accounts in the family?  It would be a huge time saver.

I'll be sure to post my finished trigger for all to use when it's done!

Thanks in advance.