I have requirement fire the trigger when data is uploading through data loader. It should not execute when record saved from User interface? How to achieve that?

I have requirement fire the trigger when data is uploading through data loader. It should not execute when record saved from User interface? How to achieve that?

You could add a custom checkbox field which is hidden from the pagelayout.

· This field could be mapped to always insert as "true" with dataloader.

· Make your after insert trigger only execute conditionally on this field to be true.

· Optionally have your trigger set the field to false, or you could keep it as true to see that these records were imported through data loader.

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