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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › You have written trigger on Opportunity and want to access field of Account. Can you use this Syntax – oppObj.Account.someField__c in Salesforce?

    Tagged: Account Field, Apex Triggers, Lookup Field, Salesforce Opportunity, Syntax, Visualforce Controller in Salesforce

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      You have written trigger on Opportunity and want to access field of Account. Can you use this Syntax – oppObj.Account.someField__c in Salesforce?

      Posted by Aman on September 22, 2018 at 6:05 PM

      You have written trigger on Opportunity and want to access field of Account. Can you use this Syntax – oppObj.Account.someField__c in Salesforce?

      shariq replied 7 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
      • Account Field
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      • Syntax
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    • shariq

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      September 22, 2018 at 6:05 PM

      There is common missunderstanding that what is allowed in Trigger Context. Above Syntax will work on any other places like Visualforce Controller. However in Trigger, Lookup field or related list is not available implicitly, we need to query it.

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