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Learning Apex Programming

You're reading from   Learning Apex Programming Create business applications using Apex to extend and improve the usefulness of the Salesforce1 Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782173977
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Apex Assumptions and Comparisons FREE CHAPTER 2. Apex Limits 3. More and Later 4. Triggers and Classes 5. Visualforce Development with Apex 6. Exposing Force.com to the World 7. Use Case – Integration with Google Calendar 8. Creating a Property Management Application 9. Test Coverage Index

Ain't no mountain


Although Force.com has many different limits on things such as number of fields, number of specific types of fields, and those dictating how custom code should be written and can be used, there are ways to work around many of these limitations. Let's take a look at how to write a roll-up summary formula in a trigger, which we will take advantage of if we have reached the maximum allowed on our object, or want to cross several relationship bridges, or want to mimic the roll-up functionality through a lookup relationship rather than Master-Detail. In order to demonstrate this functionality, we will do two Apex roll-ups using aggregate queries to Rental Agreement; one will be based on Statement__c (Total Invoiced) and the other will be based on Payment__c (Total Payments). Create the class before the triggers and this time around rollup_Methods, as shown:

public class rollup_Methods {

  //for rolling up statements to total invoiced
  public static void rollupStatementsToRentalAgreement...
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