PHP and Salesforce

Ever wonder why there is no option to make a workflow rule fire only when an object is edited, and not created? So did I. I’m not sure of the answer to the ‘why’, but I can tell you how to get around this limitation. Simply create a rule like:

‘Case: Created By not equal to null’

This works because workflow rules fire in a time frame that happens after Salesforce receives the HTTP request, but before it saves the data to the database and updates the metadata pertaining to the object (including CreatedBy).

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