Advanced Administrator Study Group

Something I’ve been noticing across Admin conversations lately: 

A lot of frustration doesn’t come from the work itself, 

but from being deeply responsible for outcomes 

while not always being included early enough to shape decisions. 

That mismatch can be hard to explain, 

especially when you technically “own” the system. 

I put together a short Admin Identity Jumpstart 

to give language to that pattern. 

No hype. No fixing. Just clarity. 

I am sure someone here can help me figure out what I am doing wrong here. We have an opportunity record type where partner portal users (they are also contact) have to select a lookup field called "Study" that looks up to a custom object called Project__c when creating oppty. However, Project__c also has another child-related object called Nurse_Training_Session__c. Nurse_Training_Session__c has a field that looks up to Contact called HcP__c and another lookup field called Project__c. Now, HcP__c is used to track contacts who have been assigned to work on a project (Project__c). When they log in to the portal to create an opportunity, we want to throw an error if they select a study they have not been assigned.

@TestVisible
private static final String UNALLOCATED_STUDY_ERROR_MSG = 'You have not been allocated to work on this study. Please select the correct study';
    public void beforeInsert(List<Opportunity> newList){
        Set<Id> projIds = new Set<Id>(); // Store Project__r.Id
	Id nurseSuppliesRecordTypeId = Schema.SObjectType.Opportunity.getRecordTypeInfosByDeveloperName().get('Nurse_Supplies').getRecordTypeId();
        Id curUserId   = userinfo.getUserId(); // Get current logged in user
        User curUser   = [SELECT Id, ContactId FROM User WHERE Id = :curUserId AND ContactId != null];
        Contact contId = [SELECT Id FROM Contact WHERE Id = :curUser.ContactId];
        List<Nurse_Training_Session__c> lstHcps = [SELECT Id, 
                                                   	  HcP__r.Id, 
                                                          Project__r.Id
                                                     FROM Nurse_Training_Session__c 
                                                      WHERE HcP__r.Id = :contId.Id];
    If(curUser != null && !lstHcps.isEmpty()){
       for(Nurse_Training_Session__c hcp: lstHcps){
           projIds.add(hcp.Project__r.Id);
        }
       for(Opportunity op: newList){
            if(op.RecordTypeId == nurseSuppliesRecordTypeId 
               && op.Study__c 		  != null 
               && !projIds.contains(op.Study__r.Id))
            	{
		 op.Study__c.addError(UNALLOCATED_STUDY_ERROR_MSG); 
 }
          } 
        }
    }