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So I have a custom object called properties Properties has a master detail link to a person account, and there is a field called property type.

I only want to be able to assign one property type per person - so a person can only have 1 residential property.

I am currently writing a trigger to do this, but I think it could be done with validation rules - which would be better as then I would not need to write unit tests etc.

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  • You've made a number of statements but it's unclear to me what you're asking. A validation rule can determine whether or not a value was entered for Properties. Workflow would be required to enter a value if it wasn't. Is that your question? – crmprogdev Mar 18 '15 at 13:21
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Create a 1 roll-up summary field on Account per type of Property, where you summarize the number of Property records per type. Then write a validation rule on Account that states that your roll-up summary field value cannot be higher than 1.

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