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goose Autopopulate the required company field on a new lead
Hi,
I've been running around in circles a bit on this one.
What I would like to do is set the company field (required) on a new lead to be the lead's lastname+firstname if it is not entered.
I first tried using a before insert trigger but it failed on validation of the field not being empty - so it looks as if the required field validations of non-custom fields are run before triggers.
Next I found this code suggestion:
http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=ajax_toolkit&message.id=7009
which bascailly says on bringing up the new lead forn, auto-populate the required field with some predetermined text that can be substituted out in the before insert trigger.
And so I overrode the new button for leads with the suggested s-control to generate the URL:
https://na6.salesforce.com/00Q/e?retURL=%2F00Q%2Fo&Company=test&nooverride=1
But the Company field is still blank rather than 'test'.
Is this because you cannot pass parameters to non-custom forms or have I done something wrong?
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks
I've been running around in circles a bit on this one.
What I would like to do is set the company field (required) on a new lead to be the lead's lastname+firstname if it is not entered.
I first tried using a before insert trigger but it failed on validation of the field not being empty - so it looks as if the required field validations of non-custom fields are run before triggers.
Next I found this code suggestion:
http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=ajax_toolkit&message.id=7009
which bascailly says on bringing up the new lead forn, auto-populate the required field with some predetermined text that can be substituted out in the before insert trigger.
And so I overrode the new button for leads with the suggested s-control to generate the URL:
https://na6.salesforce.com/00Q/e?retURL=%2F00Q%2Fo&Company=test&nooverride=1
But the Company field is still blank rather than 'test'.
Is this because you cannot pass parameters to non-custom forms or have I done something wrong?
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks