Assign account to Territory Rule in apex code

Question

We have an issue with Accounts in wrong territories.

Basically, we have an apex controller for Cases which modifies the account field that we are using to manage territories, but reading this link https://help.salesforce.com/apex/HTViewHelpDoc?id=territories_rules.htm&language=en I can see that apex code does not execute the territory rules, so I would need a right solution to solve this.

Ideas?

Answer 1

**As we all know. Currently we can't run territory assignment rule from apex. But We can use SOAP API for this requirement

You need to use SOAP API for firing the territory management rule. You can call pass the same org(which one you are using) credentials.

Use this class TerritoryMangRule.fireTerritoryManagementViaSoap(Pass list of Account here).

Follow the steps in link to generate WSDL https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Apex_Web_Services_and_Callouts

So Once trigger is fired call a future method from there execute the webservice and pass the All Account.

global class TerritoryMangRule
{    
    webService static void fireTerritoryManagementViaSoap(List<Account> lstAccountToUpdate) 
    { 
        partnerSoapSforceCom.Soap obj = new partnerSoapSforceCom.Soap();
        partnerSoapSforceCom.LoginResult loginResult = obj.login('org@username.com', 'Password');   
        obj.SessionHeader = new partnerSoapSforceCom.SessionHeader_element();
        obj.endpoint_x =loginResult.ServerUrl;
        obj.Sessionheader.sessionid = loginResult.sessionid;
        List<sobjectPartnerSoapSforceCom.sObject_x> lst = new List<sobjectPartnerSoapSforceCom.sObject_x>();
        for(Account ac:lstAccountToUpdate)
        {
            sobjectPartnerSoapSforceCom.sObject_x tmpObj = new sobjectPartnerSoapSforceCom.sObject_x();
            tmpObj.type_x = 'Account';
            tmpObj.Id = ac.Id;
            lst.add(tmpObj);
        }
        partnerSoapSforceCom.AssignmentRuleHeader_element  obj1 = new partnerSoapSforceCom.AssignmentRuleHeader_element();
        obj1.useDefaultRule = true;
        obj.AssignmentRuleHeader = obj1;
        partnerSoapSforceCom.SaveResult[] lst1 =obj.update_x(lst);
    } 
}

We need to just perform dummy update(Including set AssignmentRuleHeader) via SOAP API. It will run the Territory management rule.