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You could do a quick comparison with a Set operation.

You could simply go:

Set<sObject> oldRecordSet = new Set<sObject>(Trigger.Old.deepClone(true, true, true));

oldRecordSet.removeAll(Trigger.New);
Integer numberOfChanges = oldRecordSet.size();

If the number is 0, there were no changes. Otherwise, you have the number of changes.

If there were changes, you can then get the Ids of the records that did change like this:

Set<Id> changedRecordIdSet = (new Map<Id, sObject>(new List<sObject>(oldRecordSet))).keySet();

I haven't tested it yet, but I believe this will work.

Edit

There's one issue with doing this approach. It will always return `Trigger.New` if you think about it. Even if you checked all fields that could be editable, there are always fields that will be edited, like the `LastModified` date.

You could do a quick comparison with a Set operation.

You could simply go:

Set<sObject> oldRecordSet = new Set<sObject>(Trigger.Old.deepClone(true, true, true));

oldRecordSet.removeAll(Trigger.New);
Integer numberOfChanges = oldRecordSet.size();

If the number is 0, there were no changes. Otherwise, you have the number of changes.

If there were changes, you can then get the Ids of the records that did change like this:

Set<Id> changedRecordIdSet = (new Map<Id, sObject>(new List<sObject>(oldRecordSet))).keySet();

I haven't tested it yet, but I believe this will work.

You could do a quick comparison with a Set operation.

You could simply go:

Set<sObject> oldRecordSet = new Set<sObject>(Trigger.Old.deepClone(true, true, true));

oldRecordSet.removeAll(Trigger.New);
Integer numberOfChanges = oldRecordSet.size();

If the number is 0, there were no changes. Otherwise, you have the number of changes.

If there were changes, you can then get the Ids of the records that did change like this:

Set<Id> changedRecordIdSet = (new Map<Id, sObject>(new List<sObject>(oldRecordSet))).keySet();

I haven't tested it yet, but I believe this will work.

Edit

There's one issue with doing this approach. It will always return `Trigger.New` if you think about it. Even if you checked all fields that could be editable, there are always fields that will be edited, like the `LastModified` date.
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Programmable Medley
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You could do a quick comparison with a Set operation.

You could simply go:

Set<sObject> oldRecordSet = new Set<sObject>(Trigger.Old.deepClone(true, true, true));

oldRecordSet.removeAll(Trigger.New);
Integer numberOfChanges = oldRecordSet.size();

If the number is 0, there were no changes. Otherwise, you have the number of changes.

If there were changes, you can then get the Ids of the records that did change like this:

Set<Id> changedRecordIdSet = (new Map<Id, sObject>(new List<sObject>(oldRecordSet))).keySet();

I haven't tested it yet, but I believe this will work.

You could do a quick comparison with a Set operation.

You could simply go:

Set<sObject> oldRecordSet = new Set<sObject>(Trigger.Old.deepClone(true, true, true));

oldRecordSet.removeAll(Trigger.New);
Integer numberOfChanges = oldRecordSet.size();

If the number is 0, there were no changes. Otherwise, you have the number of changes.

You could do a quick comparison with a Set operation.

You could simply go:

Set<sObject> oldRecordSet = new Set<sObject>(Trigger.Old.deepClone(true, true, true));

oldRecordSet.removeAll(Trigger.New);
Integer numberOfChanges = oldRecordSet.size();

If the number is 0, there were no changes. Otherwise, you have the number of changes.

If there were changes, you can then get the Ids of the records that did change like this:

Set<Id> changedRecordIdSet = (new Map<Id, sObject>(new List<sObject>(oldRecordSet))).keySet();

I haven't tested it yet, but I believe this will work.

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Programmable Medley
Programmable Medley
  • 2.8k
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You could do a quick comparison with a Set operation.

You could simply go:

Set<sObject> oldRecordSet = new Set<sObject>(Trigger.Old.deepClone(true, true, true));

oldRecordSet.removeAll(Trigger.New);
Integer numberOfChanges = oldRecordSet.size();

If the number is 0, there were no changes. Otherwise, you have the number of changes.