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Kevin TullosKevin Tullos 

New Recurring Tasks <> Closed

My org is having an issue with users creating recurring tasks that are complete.  To resolve this now I am changing all the tasks that are closed in the future back to not started.  Since these are recurring tasks, it is a real pain to undo since I have to do it one at a time with the data loader.

If anyone has any ideas on a trigger, would you please post  them so that I can keep this from happening?

thanks.

kevin
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Kevin TullosKevin Tullos
I ended up solving this using a trigger and a validation rule...  

The trigger basically populated a few fields that were unaccessable by workflow rule.  Also I performed the update and insert before the save.  see the trigger below.

trigger Populate_Recurrence_ID on Task (before insert, before update) {

    for (Task T : Trigger.new)
    {
        t.Recurring_Task_ID__c = t.RecurrenceActivityId;
        t.Recurrence_End_Date__c = t.RecurrenceEndDateOnly;
        t.due_date_trigger__c = t.ActivityDate;
}}


The I created a validation rule that checked to see what the status was, if it was new, and if the due_date_trigger__c field is in future.  With this, I can control when it is on easier since I can turn off a validation rule in production.

Here is the code for the validation rule...

Due_Date_Trigger__c > TODAY() &&
ISPICKVAL (Status, 'Completed')

I hope that this helps someone...

Thanks.

kevin