Triggered by Triggers

Triggered by Triggers

Yup that's me every time I open a messy Salesforce org.

Wanna know one of the first technical steps I take when auditing a Salesforce org?

Look at all the active triggers to identify potential conflicts.

Having triggers isn’t the problem – they're the lifeblood of Salesforce automation and power critically necessary workflows.

But when multiple vendors or admins stack triggers over the years for workflows that may not even exist anymore, you end up with unexplained behavior and inconsistent data.

One major source of issues I regularly see: multiple triggers on the same object. Salesforce doesn't guarantee execution order across triggers, which means operations can behave in ways nobody intended.

Other times it’s ghost triggers - code that fires but does nothing because it was only half-cleaned up, or the tool it was built for is long gone. 👻

And that's before even factoring in Flows, which add another layer to the execution order puzzle.

When a client engages us for hands-on consulting or fractional RevOps work, I start by sharing a report outlining all active triggers and workflows - then we align on what still needs to run before we rebuild and simplify.

It also helps us ensure ARRow runs as it should, get ahead of odd behavior caused by legacy workflows, and gives clients a real a-ha! moment when they see just how many clunky or outdated automations are quietly (or not so quietly) running in the background.

To my fellow consultants: the pressure to just make it work is real. But your expertise exists for exactly this - use it to build right, not just build fast.

To everyone else: if you’re dealing with unexplained behavior in your org and want a second set of eyes - that’s exactly what we do. Reach out!

Don’t let your tool be the scapegoat for pre-existing Salesforce debt. Understand the infrastructure through real conversation and technical inspection before setting any expectations.

You’ll likely be quite surprised by what you find...