Hello All, 

I recently designed a trigger to update a Goals/Forecast custom object I built called Financial_Planning__c.  Basically, on the "before update" action of the object, the trigger goes out and finds all the Closed Won opportunities for that division and updates a field on the Financial_Planning__c object.

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trigger FinancialPlanningTrigger on Financial_Planning__c (before update) {

    List<Date> dtStart =  new List<Date>();
    List<Date> dtEnd =  new List<Date>();
    List<String> strSBU =  new List<String>();
    Double fpAmount = 0 ;
String strname;

      for(Financial_Planning__c fp : trigger.new){
      dtStart.add(fp.period_start_date__c);
      dtEnd.add(fp.period_End_date__c);
      strSBU.add(fp.Division__c);
      strname = fp.division__c + ' - (' + fp.Revenue_Type__c + ')';
    }
   
List<aggregateResult> fpresults = [select Sum(amount) Total from Opportunity
               where IsWon=True
               And Contract_Start_Date__c >= :dtStart
               And Contract_Start_Date__c <= :dtEnd
               And SBU__C in :strSBU];

for (AggregateResult ar : fpresults )  {
  
    fpAmount = (Double)ar.get('Total');
}
   
      for(Financial_Planning__c fp : trigger.new){
    fp.Realized_Revenue_Actual__c =  fpamount;
    fp.name = strname; // field on which Task count and event count needs to be updated
    }
   
}
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Based on some info I heard at a developers group, I want to take the code out of the trigger and put it in a class, then have the trigger call the class?  How would I do that?  I just figured out how to create a trigger, and have not really mastered classes yet.