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JD SpragueJD Sprague 

Lead Record Type to Opportunity Record Type Apex Trigger

I am looking to map the Lead Record Type to the Opportunity Record Type when I convert the lead. Right now the Opportunity Record Type populates with a default value. I have only written a few apex triggers as of now and am still new to salesforce, I appreciate any help! 
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SonamSonam (Salesforce Developers) 
You can try the following:
1)(Can be done using the out-of-box functionality: Create a custom field on Lead object which stores the value of lead record type and map it to a custom field on the Opportunity side such that it stored the value of the lead record type
2)Write a before insert trigger on opportunity such that it looks at this value of the custom field and sets the record type of the opportunity

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SonamSonam (Salesforce Developers) 
You can try the following:
1)(Can be done using the out-of-box functionality: Create a custom field on Lead object which stores the value of lead record type and map it to a custom field on the Opportunity side such that it stored the value of the lead record type
2)Write a before insert trigger on opportunity such that it looks at this value of the custom field and sets the record type of the opportunity
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JD SpragueJD Sprague
Is there anyway to do this all within a trigger? Here is my current trigger:

trigger AddPrimaryContactToConvertedOpp on Lead (After Update) {


// THIS TRIGGER WILL OVERWRITE ANY CONTACT DEFINED IN THE CUSTOM FIELD CONTACT__C ON THE OPPORTUNITY OBJECT.
// SET THIS FIELD TO READ ONLY OR CHANGE THE FUNCTIONALITY BELOW TO AVIOD DATA BEING OVERWRITTEN BY MISTAKE...

// [1] Build list of Oppos to update
List<Opportunity> oUpdList = new List<Opportunity> ();
for (Lead l : Trigger.new) 
    if (l.IsConverted && l.convertedOpportunityId != null)
        oUpdList.add(new Opportunity(id = l.convertedOpportunityId, name = l.name));

// [2] Update the converted Oppos
update oUpdList;  // could be Database.update(oUpdList,false) if you want partial successes
}


this trigger updates a field in the new opportunity but will not work with the recordtype for some reason.
Chidanand MChidanand M
Hi JD Sprague,

Here is the Sample Code,
  
trigger assignRecordType on Opportunity (before insert) {
    public string recName;

    for(Opportunity o:Trigger.new){
    
        recName=o.Rec_Type__c;
        
        if(recName!=NULL){
    
            RecordType rt = [SELECT Id FROM RecordType WHERE SObjectType='Opportunity' AND Name=:recName LIMIT 1];
            o.RecordTypeId =  rt.Id;
             
        }     
    
    }  

}

 
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