Salesforce Advanced Administrator Certification Guide

Trigger features and rules

In the previous section, we saw that the order of execution of Salesforce automation has to deal with all of the available automation tools within the Salesforce platform and that Apex triggers are called twice, before and after the record is saved to the database.

This is one of the pros of using Apex triggers:

• Before save events are not available on Process Builder actions. That is, on Process Builder, any action or logic is done only after the record has already been saved to the database; with before triggers, we can implement complex logic that deals with unrelated objects and that can be used to validate records in a better way. The example I usually use is validating Italian fiscal code: the code is composed ...