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pradsy90 Automatically Determine Account from Contact
Hi -
I have created a custom object called Reservation which has the Account and the Contact fields. They are defined as look up fields.
When I create a new Reservation I would like the Account field to be determined based on the Contact I choose.
How can I do this on the default creation page view that SalesForce provides for a custom object.
Do I have to use a VLOOKUP Function? If yes, where?
A code snippet would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your time.
Regards,
Hi,
You can do this through writing a trigger on your custom object or you can create a formula field(Return type Text) on Custom Object in which you have to assign the value as Contact__r.Account.Name and after saving a record your formula filed contain Account name which is associated with that contact which you have selected. You can’t update lookup field through workflow so you have to write a trigger in that case.
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Hi,
You can do this through writing a trigger on your custom object or you can create a formula field(Return type Text) on Custom Object in which you have to assign the value as Contact__r.Account.Name and after saving a record your formula filed contain Account name which is associated with that contact which you have selected. You can’t update lookup field through workflow so you have to write a trigger in that case.
Did this answer your question? If not, let me know what didn't work, or if so, please mark it solved.
Hi -
Thanks for your reply. Yes, this helped and worked.
I was able to achieve what I wanted using the Formula Field.
I will try placing the triggers on the custom object as well.
Regards,