Salesforce Trigger workflow on record delete

Question

I want to listen change in my legacy system whenever there is any change in SF object (add/update/delete). So I have created outbound message and workflow. But in workflow I don't see any way to fire if object is deleted.

Is there anyway I can trigger outbound message on record delete? I know have heard that it can be done by trigger. But I don't want to write apex code for this.

Answer 1

To the best of my knowledge it cannot be done, the workflow actions are decoupled from the workflow rule (you can even reuse them) so they probably do not receive the transaction scope and when they execute the record is already gone and any reference inside action would point to a non-existing data. Thus the only way I know how to do it is via trigger.