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Field Updates That Reevaluate Workflow Rules
If Re-evaluate Workflow Rules After Field Change is enabled for a field update action, and a field update results in a change to the value of the field, Salesforce reevaluates all workflow rules on the object.
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| Available in: Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic |
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- If the field update changes the field’s value, all workflow rules on the associated object are reevaluated. Any workflow rules whose criteria are met as a result of the field update are triggered.
- If any of the triggered workflow rules result in another field update that’s also enabled for workflow rule reevaluation, a domino effect occurs, and more workflow rules can be reevaluated as a result of the newly triggered field update. This cascade of workflow rule reevaluation and triggering can happen up to five times after the initial field update that started it.
- Make sure that your workflow rules aren’t set up to create recursive loops. For example, if a field update for Rule1 triggers Rule2, and a field update for Rule2 triggers Rule1, the recursive triggers can cause your organization to exceed its limit for workflow time triggers per hour.
- In a batch update, workflow is only retriggered on the entities where there’s a change.
- Only workflow rules on the same object as the initial field update are reevaluated and triggered.
- Only workflow rules that didn’t fire before are retriggered.
- Cross-object workflow rules aren’t candidates for reevaluation.
- Cross-object field updates that cause a field value to change don’t trigger workflow rule reevaluation on the associated object.
- An approval process can specify a field update action that reevaluates workflow rules for the updated object. If, however, the reevaluated workflow rules include a cross-object field update, those cross-object field updates are ignored.
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Time-dependent actions aren't executed for a reevaluated workflow rule in the following situations:
- The reevaluated workflow rule’s immediate actions cause the record to no longer meet the workflow rule criteria.
- An Apex
aftertrigger that is executed as a result of a workflow or approvals action causes the record to no longer meet the workflow rule criteria.
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