so I have just finished a degree in computing and have just started industry related employment and wow... we really don't seem to learn much at uni, just the bare basics.
Anyway, I am learning Apex and attempting to write my first trigger. The online tutorials are pretty unforgiving and I find that they seem to all miss out what my brain is lacking.
I am writing a trigger to automatically send an email to a specified address, the sending the email part is fine however I want to send in the email what has been changed and read as to whether it anything has been changed. What I have so far is as follows:
trigger Test1 on Account (after update) {
if(Trigger.isUpdate) {
//Commit current transaction, reserver email capacity
Messaging.reserveSingleEmailCapacity(1);
//Create an email message object
Messaging.SingleEmailMessage mail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
List<Messaging.SendEmailResult> results = new list<Messaging.SendEmailResult>();
//hold email address
String[] toAddresses = new String[] {'example@example.com'};
//Assign new address string
mail.setToAddresses(toAddresses);
//specify return ad (assuming as being sent from server)
mail.setReplyTo('pwitherby@gmail.com');
//sender name
mail.setSenderDisplayName('Mr Apex Tester');
//Subject Specification
mail.setSubject('Subjected to Learning');
//And... the content
mail.setPlainTextBody('You have just changed sumek... this really what you want....?')
if (!results.get(0).isSuccess())
System.debug('That didnt really work did it? Reason: ' + results.get(0).getErrors()[0].getMessage());
}
}
So my main questions that I cant find an answer for: Will this work at current? so will this send this email if anything in the schema gets altered/updated? I want to put in the email body what has been altered and what it has been changed to i.e "you have changed " + whatsChanged + " to " + telephoneNumber. How do I listen for changes or is it already doing that? Am I writing this to a decent standard or is it just messy code!
Sorry to waffle, it is my biggest downfall however I struggle to augment my questions without it!