Understanding Order of Execution in Salesforce
Link to the post - https://ayaninsights.com/guestblogs/salesforce-order-of-execution-review/ In this article, I review Salesforce’s Order of Execution and explain why understanding it is essential for building reliable automation and avoiding unexpected behavior. Whenever a record is created, updated, or upserted, Salesforce processes validations, flows, triggers, workflow rules, duplicate rules, and other automation in a specific sequence. Knowing this sequence helps developers and administrators prevent overwritten field values, recursive logic, automation conflicts, and inconsistent results. The blog walks through the major execution stages, including system validation, custom validation rules, before-save flows, before triggers, duplicate checks, temporary record saving, after triggers, workflow rules, post-save automation, database commit, and post-commit actions such as emails and asynchronous jobs. I also highlight important considerations for developers. For example, Trigge...