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Bhulesh deshpande 3Bhulesh deshpande 3 

Level deep I can go for self lookup trigger

Hello Guys, 

I have an interesting scenario. I have self lookup on a custom object. When the parent is updated, I have to update the child. There can be upto 15 levels deep records. How would I go to achive this? Any thoughts, recomondations highly appreciated.

Thanks for your time!

Shailesh
Sumitkumar_ShingaviSumitkumar_Shingavi
You have to run recursion (recusrsive loop) until "ParentId != Null". I think, Apex will handle 15 level deep recursion. It really will through exception when you hit catche size due to recursive loops where intermidiate results are stored.

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Bhulesh deshpande 3Bhulesh deshpande 3
Hello Sumit thanks for your response .

I have another issue could you please help me to solve the issue..?
Bhulesh deshpande 3Bhulesh deshpande 3
The senario is I want to perform insert and update operation on Case object and execute different operations on the basis of this before trigger execute.

The thing is I have wrote a before trigger and used three helper classes for insert, update and operation process .not getting error after saving entire apex code  but while updating record I am getting ,

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Error ID: 1825935943-342219 (1204153959)

This eror please let me know the solution idf you know.

What could be the reson i am getting this error...?