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FinneyFinney 

Trigger cannot recursively update itself

Hi

 

I have 2 objects here

 

1) Account - Parent 

2) Showing - Child

 

When the status on the account is dead, I wanted the status on the Showing record also to be dead.

 

I have created a trigger to do it but I am getting a strange error.

 

Error:Apex trigger UpdateShowingStatus caused an unexpected exception, contact your administrator: UpdateShowingStatus: execution of BeforeUpdate caused by: System.DmlException: Update failed. First exception on row 0 with id a0KJ0000001CKO5MAO; first error: CANNOT_INSERT_UPDATE_ACTIVATE_ENTITY, ShowingCount: execution of BeforeUpdate caused by: System.DmlException: Update failed. First exception on row 0 with id 001J000000R4YjHIAV; first error: SELF_REFERENCE_FROM_TRIGGER, Object (id = 001J000000R4YjH) is currently in trigger UpdateShowingStatus, therefore it cannot recursively update itself: [] Trigger.ShowingCount: line 21, column 1: []: Trigger.UpdateShowingStatus: line 17, column 1

 

I am posting the 2 triggers here

 

 

trigger UpdateShowingStatus on Account (before update) {
List<ID> accIds = New List<ID>();

  for(Account a:Trigger.new)
{
    if(a.pb__Status__c == 'Dead'){
      accIds.add(a.Id);
    }
  }

  List<pb__Showing__c> s = [ SELECT id,Account__c,Status__c from pb__Showing__c where Account__c = :accIds];
  for(integer i = 0 ; i < s.size(); i++){
    s[i].Status__c =  'Dead';
    
  }

  update s;
}

 

This is another trigger which is causing the conflict

 

trigger ShowingCount on pb__Showing__c (before insert,before update) {
    
    // if(trigger.new[0].Account__c!=null)
    // {
    Account ac=[select id, No_of_Viewings__c from Account where id=:trigger.new[0].Account__c];
    
    //if(ac!=null)
    //{
    if(ac.No_of_Viewings__c == null)
    ac.No_of_Viewings__c =0;
        
        if(trigger.isinsert) {
            ac.No_of_Viewings__c +=1;
        }
    
        if(trigger.isupdate ) {
            if(trigger.new[0].Status__c == 'Cancelled')
            ac.No_of_Viewings__c -= 1; 
        }
    
    update ac;
  
}

 

Can someone help me to fix this error please.

 

Thanks and Kind Regards

 

Finney

Jeff MayJeff May

Your second trigger (on the pb_Showing__c custom object) is manipulating Account records, which is causing Account updates,which triggers an update to the pb_Showing__c member of the Account.  Can you get around this by using Workflows and Field Updates instead?  This let's you only fire under the conditions you care about.

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An all APEX solution to this - http://developer.force.com/cookbook/recipe/controlling-recursive-triggers is commonly used to avoid recursive triggers. 

 

The topic is also discussed at length in this wonderful book - http://danappleman.com/2012/08/05/advancedapex/ with some design patterns to use

Mayank_JoshiMayank_Joshi

Hey Finney ,

 

Is there any necessity in using Before Event in all your triggers ?Also if you were using Before event then you should not use Update ( ); Call explicitly . I have commented out those update calls into your Trigger.

 

Also try to make your trigger with Combination of After and Before event (if only , your requirement allows you ).

 

please check below code for commented update Statement(it will work in same manner) and Use of Sets instead of List :

 

 

trigger UpdateShowingStatus on Account (After update) {
//List<ID> accIds = New List<ID>();

Set<Id> accIds =New Set<Id> ();

for(Account a:Trigger.new)
{
if(a.pb__Status__c == 'Dead'){
accIds.add(a.Id);
}
}

List<pb__Showing__c> s = [ SELECT id,Account__c,Status__c from pb__Showing__c where Account__c = :accIds];
for(integer i = 0 ; i < s.size(); i++){
s[i].Status__c = 'Dead';

}

update s;
}

This is another trigger which is causing the conflict

trigger ShowingCount on pb__Showing__c (before insert,before update) {


Account ac=[select id, No_of_Viewings__c from Account where id=:trigger.new[0].Account__c];

if(ac.No_of_Viewings__c == null)
ac.No_of_Viewings__c =0;

if(trigger.isinsert) {
ac.No_of_Viewings__c +=1;
}

if(trigger.isupdate ) {
if(trigger.new[0].Status__c == 'Cancelled')
ac.No_of_Viewings__c -= 1;
}

// update ac;

}
}
}

 

Warm Regards, 

Ramesh SomalagariRamesh Somalagari
Hi All I have same problem.Can you please click this link http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/43871/system-dmlexception-delete-failed-self-reference-from-trigger See the log I a have got same issue.

Vinod RajputVinod Rajput
HI All,
From UpdateShowingStatus  trigger you are updating pb__Showing__c object and From pb__Showing__c object you are updating Account that is not allowed , Reason
You have initiated before update(transection) event trigger from UpdateShowingStatus  which is updating pb__Showing__c object data and pb__Showing__c object trigger is updating account in context of before update so it is not allowed in salesforce , Inorder to achieve this functionality use after update event with help static helper class so you can avoid error.