Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide

Order of execution

We can basically do five different operations on Salesforce records:

• Insert
• Update
• Upsert (which is just an insert or update operation, depending on the fact that the record may already be in the database, given a unique field such as its ID)
• Delete
• Undelete

While the delete and undelete operations have never been mentioned when we talked about automation (and this is one of the reasons Apex triggers are most suitable for certain scenarios), insert and update operations (and upsert) follow a determined order of events (which should become your mantra when designing automation) as follows:

1. The original record is loaded from the database (or a new record is initialized in case of insert).
2. The new field values coming from ...