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can we deactivate trigger in salesforce

by Alejandrin Gerhold DDS Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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If you want to deactivate a trigger in Salesforce as part of a deployment you can do it. You can use this method to deactivate apex triggers in an ant or DX deployment. Open up the metadata file for the trigger.

In general, triggers are not editable once deployed to production org. However, in certain circumstances there might be a need to disable triggers in production. Note: Consider the consequences of disabling a trigger in the production environment during work hours.

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How to disable a trigger in production in Salesforce?

You can also follow these steps to disable a trigger in production in Salesforce. 4. Click edit next to the trigger you want to disable 5. Uncheck the Is Active checkbox 6. Hit save 7. Boom, your trigger is now deactivated

How to delete a trigger that is not needed?

Click on an object for example Employee object. Then scroll down and you will see a section triggers where you will find list of triggers created for that object. Select the trigger which you do not need and delete. Let me know if this worked.

How to retrieve the metadata of a trigger in Salesforce?

Unzip the retrieved metadata folder. In the triggername.trigger-meta.xml file change the status from Active to Inactive. Now zip the folder back and deploy it using Workbench. d) Via Salesforce CLI Create a package.xml file to retrieve the metadata of the trigger.

How do I de-activate an apex trigger in production?

Currently, there is no way to de-activate an Apex trigger in production. Please allow this. * A new bug is found, causing an unhandled exception. You want users to be able to continue saving records that cause the exception, while you troubleshoot the bug in a dev/sandbox environment.

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How do I disable a trigger for a particular user in Salesforce?

Disable Trigger Handlers for All UsersClick the Trigger Handler tab. If you don't see it, find it in the App Launcher ( ). ... Click in the row for the Trigger Handler you want to disable, and select Edit.Deselect the Active checkbox.For all NPSP-packaged Trigger Handlers, select the User Managed checkbox. ... Click Save.

How do I stop a trigger execution in Salesforce?

Go to that trigger, Click on edit, there is one checkbox at leftside above the trigger editor "Is Active", just uncheck that checkbox and click on save. Trigger will be not fired untill you mark that check box again.

How do I disable custom triggers?

To disable a trigger, you use the ALTER TRIGGER DISABLE statement:ALTER TRIGGER trigger_name DISABLE;ALTER TRIGGER customers_audit_trg DISABLE;ALTER TABLE table_name DISABLE ALL TRIGGERS;ALTER TABLE customers DISABLE ALL TRIGGERS;More items...

How do I disable a trigger in Test class in Salesforce?

If you want to default the trigger to off, have your handler set bypassTrigger = Test. isRunningTest() . That way, you can still toggle it on/off when you run certain tests in your suite. The trigger doesn't contain any logic except call the handler and the handler you can test.

How do you restrict a trigger to fire only once?

“The before and after triggers fire one more time only if something needs to be updated. If the fields have already been set to a value, the triggers are not fired again.” Workaround: Add a static boolean variable to a class, and check its value within the affected triggers.

Can we write two triggers on same object?

Multiple Triggers on the same object Writing multiple triggers renders the system unable to recognize the order of execution. Moreover, each trigger that is invoked does not get its own governor limits. Instead, all code that is processed, including the additional triggers, share those available resources.

What happens when trigger is disabled?

Disabling a trigger does not drop it. The trigger still exists as an object in the current database. However, the trigger does not fire when any Transact-SQL statements on which it was programmed are executed. Triggers can be re-enabled by using ENABLE TRIGGER.

Can we disable a trigger on table?

Permissions. To delete a DML trigger requires ALTER permission on the table or view on which the trigger is defined.

What happened when trigger is disabled?

A disabled trigger does not execute its trigger body, even if a triggering statement is issued and the trigger restriction (if any) evaluates to true.

Can we deactivate managed package trigger?

We can't deactivate managed package triggers. Check hierarchical custom setting in a managed package if there is a way to enable/disable any functionality.

Can we deactivate Apex class?

1. Probably the simplest way to delete / disable is to connect to your Salesforce production org from VS Code download the apex class / trigger, change the status of the Apex class / trigger to “Deleted” or “Inactive” in the class/trigger XML file and save.

Can we write trigger on custom setting?

Its not possible to write a trigger on the Custom Settings. Though you are able to write a trigger on Custom Settings..you will not be able to Update the Records as Custom Settings do not have the Lookup Fields to associate your Custom Setting with any of the Objects(be it Standard or Custom).

What is triggers in code?

In Triggers, before executing any code block, we check if the Logic for that functionality is enabled or not in custom settings. So, from custom setting only, we control the execution of Trigger.

What are the two fields in triggers?

For Triggers, we have created custom settings which have two fields - "Logic Name" and "isEnabled".

What happens if you turn off a workflow rule?

A side effect of turning off a workflow rule may result in legitimate records (especially time based workflow rules) not being triggered. It's just something to keep in mind.

What are the disadvantages of custom labels?

The disadvantage with custom labels of course is that they will have system-wide effects for all users, which won't work for many customers. In those cases, you are probably better off using a single named user or role or profile in these rules (either dedicated API account, or a sys admin user/role/profile) and doing the same type of check against something like username or role AND then using the contents of something like user alias if you want granular on/off control.

Is there a free tool in Salesforce?

There now exists a free tool in the Salesforce ecosystem that perfectly meets this need: the Switch utility from Ben Edward's generous Salesforce Toolkit library.

Is there an out of the box functionality in Salesforce?

Till date there is no out of the box functionality available in Salesforce to handle enable and disable Workflow, Trigger and/or Validation in single step.

Ankit

Is it possible to Deactivate a trigger from Apex in Salesforce? If yes, then how?

Ankit

Is there any way to Inactive trigger in production without deployment or without edit trigger code?

Neha

You can try Metadata API for ApexTrigger includes the status value that can be set to Active/Inactive/Deleted. You can call that from Apex.

Archit

The best possible way to choose below options to Inactive trigger in production.

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