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GuyClairboisGuyClairbois 

Retrieve differences between trigger.old and trigger.new

Hi all,

 

I was wondering if there is an easy way to retrieve a list of changed fields from an update-trigger.

I mean without going through each and every field and checking whether if changed or not. I need this for an e-mail notification of the changes done on a custom object. Otherwise, whenever I add, remove or change a field, the trigger has to be updated.

 

Many thanks,

Guy

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aalbertaalbert
You could use Dynamic Apex to describe the custom object and get a list of all the fields in run-time. From there, you can loop through each field to check if the new and old values.

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aalbertaalbert
You could use Dynamic Apex to describe the custom object and get a list of all the fields in run-time. From there, you can loop through each field to check if the new and old values.
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GuyClairboisGuyClairbois

Hmm.. Dynamic Apex is not the simplest to use..

 

What I am trying now as a workaround is the following: I can access the record history from the VisualForce Email template, so there I can also easily retrieve the changed fields.

 

But when I trigger the Email directly upon a record change, the change is not yet reflected in the record history. I solved this by delaying the Email by a bit (Time-Dependent Workflow).

 

Only challenge is to retrieve a subset of the history (only the latest changes) in my <apex:repeat> loop when retrieving the record history. I solved this now by using the RENDERED tag for only displaying today's history entries (since these particular records don't change that often) but it would be better to have a filtering/sorting option in <apex:repeat>. 

 

Let me know if you people have any other suggestions/additions.

Message Edited by GuyClairbois on 05-26-2009 08:35 AM