PHP and Salesforce » Workflows http://phpandsalesforce.com A CRM Reference For PHP Developers Wed, 26 May 2010 22:19:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Creating an Edit-Only Workflow Rule in Salesforce http://phpandsalesforce.com/2009/06/29/creating-an-edit-only-workflow-rule-in-salesforce/ http://phpandsalesforce.com/2009/06/29/creating-an-edit-only-workflow-rule-in-salesforce/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:47:48 +0000 admin http://phpandsalesforce.com/?p=156 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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