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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › How to restrict any Trigger to fire only once OR how we can avoid repeated or multiple execution of Trigger in Salesforce?

    Tagged: Account, Boolean, Order of Execution, Salesforce Trigger, Salesforce Workflow

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      How to restrict any Trigger to fire only once OR how we can avoid repeated or multiple execution of Trigger in Salesforce?

      Posted by Aman on September 22, 2018 at 10:45 PM

      How to restrict any Trigger to fire only once OR how we can avoid repeated or multiple execution of Trigger in Salesforce?

      Parul replied 7 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
      • Account
      • Boolean
      • Order of Execution
      • Salesforce Trigger
      • Salesforce Workflow
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    • shariq

      Member
      September 22, 2018 at 10:47 PM

      Triggers can fire twice, once before workflows and once after workflows -

      “The before and after triggers fire one more time only if something needs to be updated. If the fields have already been set to a value, the triggers are not fired again.”

      Workaround:

      Add a static boolean variable to a class, and check its value within the affected triggers.

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      print?
      public class HelperClass {
      public static boolean firstRun = true;
      }
      trigger affectedTrigger on Account (before delete, after delete, after undelete) {
      if(Trigger.isBefore){
      if(Trigger.isDelete){
      if(HelperClass.firstRun){
      Trigger.old[0].addError('Before Account Delete Error');
      HelperClass.firstRun=false;
      }
      }
      }
      }

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    • Parul

      Member
      September 23, 2018 at 3:27 AM

      Triggers can fire twice, once before workflows and once after workflows, so must follow the best practice and order of execution of trigger.

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