Ability to create a custom sobject record, ContentVersion and ContentDocumentLink together

[shveeram]

Hi,

Using the DML Lib chaining, do you think it would work by inserting the custom sobject record, followed by ContentVersion (file), followed by the cross object ContentDocumentLink which links both sobject record and ContentDocumentId when content version is created in a single transaction?

Thanks
Shas

[pgajek2]

Hi @shveeram ,

Sorry for the late response.

Yes. It should work. Just build proper dependencies between records and commit them at once.

However because those are 3 different SObjectTypes, 3 DMLs will be made.

[shveeram]

Hi @pgajek2 - Thanks for your response and contribution through APEX fluently framework. It is part of our core toolkit / framework in the way we do things now.

Slightly headache with the Custom SObject record, related file via ContentVersion and ContentDocumentLink is ContentDocumentId which gets created on the back of ContentVersion is not marked as External ID and hence we have to commit ContentVersion and then requery that object to get ContentDocumentId before we can prepare the transaction for the cross object ContentDocumentLink.

Considering this, we have gone with the Attachment object through DML lib and that works great.