Populating Account record from Lead in an Account before insert trigger

Question

There are lot of discussions on Lead conversion. I'd just need to know is there any possibility to track whether the Account is being created upon a Lead conversion and if collecting information of the lead inside an Account before insert trigger. Lead to Account relation can be handled in a Lead trigger since convertedAccountId field is there. But is there any relevant field in Account object?

I'm trying to overcome a "duplicate unique field" issue and thinking handle this in Account before insert trigger. Because even though it's easy to detect the created account at Lead before update trigger, fields need to be populated before the record is being inserted.

Answer 1

You can use the Map Lead Fields feature to pass fields from your Lead records directly to the Account and Contact records that are created during the Lead conversion process. These values will then be available to you in your Account and Contact before insert contexts.

The Map Lead Fields feature can be found in Setup > Customize > Leads > Fields > Lead Custom Fields & Relationships > Map Lead Fields.

The default mappings for the standard fields can be found here.