When to use Triggers and When to use Workflows in Salesforce?

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When to use Triggers and When to use Workflows in Salesforce?

Posted by sushant on December 7, 2016 at 12:28 pm

Hi All,

When to use Triggers and When to use Workflows?

please give suggestions

Thanks

sushant replied 8 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
2 Replies

Vikas Kumar

Member
December 7, 2016 at 6:53 pm

Hi sushant,

Triggers fire before workflows and

It is always suggestable to use the SF functionality in the first hand if it serves all our purposes. If the requirement or the functionality needs to handle some logic that the workflow rules cannot achieve, only then we should go for writing a custom trigger.
sushant

Member
December 8, 2016 at 11:21 am

Thanks Vikas

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