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Lakshmi SLakshmi S 

Apex Triggers (Recursive triggers)

Hi All,

whether trigger will be called once or twice and when will you get the recursive trigger?
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Vasani ParthVasani Parth
This is a brilliant post by Andrew Fawcett on recursive triggers and how to avoid them http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/22828/what-are-recursive-triggers-how-to-control-them-please-provide-an-example-also

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Nagendra ChinchinadaNagendra Chinchinada
If we do Insert or Update of an object on After trigger of same object, it will execute before, after triggers again and again (upto 5 time) and will cause recursion.
Ex: If we put Insert/Update of Contacts on Contact After Trigger, it causes recursion in contact triggers.
Vasani ParthVasani Parth
This is a brilliant post by Andrew Fawcett on recursive triggers and how to avoid them http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/22828/what-are-recursive-triggers-how-to-control-them-please-provide-an-example-also

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Lakshmi SLakshmi S
Thankyou all