Salesforce Apex: Send Notification when Task Created From Apex
Sometimes, we would want to create a list of tasks and assign them to users automatically in Apex. And, the assignees should get a notification that a task has been assigned to them. However, in apex class, there is nothing call “Notify Assignee” checkbox like what you see in the Task Workflow Action as shown below.
A quick workaround for this is you can turn on the triggerUserEmail DML option when creating the Task. For example:
List myTasks = new List(); for(integer i = 0; i < 5; i ++){ Task newTask = new Task(); newTask.Subject='Automated Task'; newTask.OwnerId = ; myTasks.add(newTask); } Database.DMLOptions notifyOption = new Database.DMLOptions(); notifyOption.EmailHeader.triggerUserEmail = true; //we need to use the Database.insert() with the DMLOptions to insert the task instead of using the standard insert DML command Database.insert(newTask, notifyOption);