When should Apex be used over Workflow rules or Process Builder?

Hi,

You can achieve everything  done by workflow and process builder with apex.

Advantages of Apex -

Apex

Finally, there’s always Apex to help you achieve “everything else” — whatever business requirements you have that can’t be accomplished through declarative configuration. If you have access to a developer, with Apex the sky is the limit. With Apex you could do the following:

– Delete records
– Update unrelated records
– Share records with more complex criteria than Sharing Rules permits
– Add/remove users in Chatter Groups and Public Groups
– Create email templates that pulls info from multiple records and Objects (combined with Visualforce)
– And more

Apex is powerful tool, but do your best to minimize its use. Don’t be afraid to employ it, but makes sure you think it through thoroughly to determine if there is a way you can accomplish what you need declaratively. Using Apex means that you’ll need to write test coverage and the more Apex you have, the longer it will take deployments from Sandboxes because the changes need to be validated against all of the code.

By knowing the tools available, what they can do (and their limitations), and when is best to use each, you’re in a position to give your users the best experience possible while also creating an environment for your organization to have the best data possible.

Hope it helps.

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by  shariq.