Questions related to the Eclipse-based Force.com IDE.

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Force.com IDE error [duplicate]

I am getting following error whenever I try to fetch meta-data. Any idea how to resolve this?
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Help on reducing deployment time

We have a unique situation. We have a force.com site implementation where we have around 150 visual force pages and around 250 apex classes. The classes are tightly coupled from an architecture ...
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Where to edit XML for “Lookup Filter” in Force.com

I created custom lookup fields for my custom object in web UI. Some of these lookup fields have lookup field filters. I need to create the same filter for many other similar lookup fields. I ...
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Force.com IDE: migrate custom object from one org to another

I am new to Salesforce. I created a few custom object, triggers and classes under one Saleforce entity. Later, I downloaded them all to IDE project. I want to migrate them to another Salesforce ...
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Force.com IDE does ONLY save to server when explicitely force by “Save to Server”

When I save a change in my Force.com IDE this is not reflected on the server very often. I then have to manually use Force.com > Save to server. I recently upgraded to Eclipse Juno but the problem ...
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How do I find the line number for Visualforce errors in Eclipse?

Most Visualforce errors in Eclipse are erroneously located in Line 0. Pasting the same code in the Salesforce via a web browser exposes the line number of the error. How do I find the line number for ...
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Slow development

When I am developing sometimes my eclipse hangs or takes 8 mins to push a change. IT really slows me down. It can take a long while to run tests. I sometime run tests in the browser to speed things ...
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How do I add a custom label via the Force.com IDE?

I am trying to save time by adding custom labels directly in the CustomLabels.labels file using the Force.com IDE. Say I have a label like this: <labels> ...
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Developer name already exists for given entity or has been previously used. Please choose a different name

In my managed ISV package I have many deprecated classes. Some of the are global and I cannot change their signature and just mark them as @deprecated. To make it more obvious that a class is ...
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Force.com IDE adds localized fields on sync?

I have a project that I keep in Git and use ant most of the time to deploy it to dev orgs and the production org where we create the package. When I sync the project with the development environment ...
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Where can I get Force.com IDE plugin version 26

I can't seem to find a list of old versions.
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TotalRequests Limit exceeded error using force.com IDE

We have a trial org and we currently have 7 developers working on the org. Currently all our developers are getting an error which is TotalRequests Limit exceeded if we use the force.com Ide. Do you ...
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What could be the reason for slowness in force.com Ide?

I am using force.com IDE and I am facing extremely slowness in saving a file to the server. It seems to take too much time to save apex classes or visual force pages that i need to cancel the ...
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Force.com IDE - Easy Push of Single File Through Single Key Combo?

As anyone who has worked with a development team using a repo can attest to, using the Force.com IDE can be a bit challenging. My team and I have turned off Build Automatically and I originally was ...
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Put Force.com Functions in a Toolbar

Most of the force.come function in eclipse are buried deep in a context menu. Some (e.g. Deploy) are available in the toolbar. How do I get other functions (Refresh from Server, Run Tests) into the ...
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Eclipse deploying between 2 Sandboxes

Im getting the following error when trying to deploy a number of items from a dev to a full sandbox. Works ok if i just deploy a couple of components at a time but if i try to deploy all changes it ...
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Force.com IDE error 'NotAfter'

Any idea what's causing this error? It's happening on both the Force.com IDE and the Force.com plugin for Eclipse, on Windows XP 32 bit. Strangely it's ONLY happening for one particular ...
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Code Formatting

Has anyone gotten code formatting (Ctrl+Shift+F) to work in Eclipse? I know it's basically a Java feature but it would be neat to format Apex code according to rules. I also can't get some hotkeys ...
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Force.com IDE: Rookie Error?

I'm using the Force.com IDE for the first time and attempting to migrate all the meta-data from one instance to a brand new developer edition account. I am fine doing this piece by piece however long ...
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Force.com IDE - Deploy Entire Org. to New Org [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Copying metadata and code from one Production org to another Quick Question. I'm trying to deploy an entire org.'s metadata into a new one, specifically its sandbox, ...
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IDE errors shows up only in production, not sandbox

I've been able to update meta data on standard object picklist values and refresh them to our full sandbox, but am unable to do the same thing in production with out the following errors. ...
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Deployment with Force.com IDE Taking Forever

We're experiencing extremely long deployment times even when deploying single classes using the force.com IDE plugin to eclipse. The deployment takes up to 1 hour yet running all unit tests from the ...
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Unable to delete picklist values with force.com IDE

I was successful in adding picklist values through the IDE but unable to remove them directly from the metadata xml. Is there something I'm missing or is this a known issue.
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Problems Installing Force.com IDE

I read Woody Leonhard's article in InfoWorld on the dangers of Java yesterday, so I uninstalled the two JRE's on my Windows 7 computer, and then reinstalled the latest version. This is what I have ...
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Which applications support Apex/Visualforce syntax highlighting?

Apart from Force.com's internal editor and Force.com IDE / Eclipse, which applications support syntax highlighting for Apex and Visualforce. I just found a definition file for Vim, but could not ...
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What does error in IDE Ubuntu 64 mean?

Whenever I open a Salesforce project in Force.com IDE, I get this error message: It prevents me from saving any chances to Salesforce. Here is one such error message: Description Resource Path ...
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Force.com IDE deploy error to Spring 13 Sandbox

Two of my sandboxes upgraded today to Spring 13, and I can't Deploy metadata to them using the Force.com IDE. I'm seeing the errors: Problem: Unknown type name 'MobileSettings' specified in ...
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How to prevent Eclipse Plug-in auto build from generating warnings for system files [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Force.com IDE warning that files in .git subdirectory only saved locally, not to server Recently switched to handling version control outside of eclipse and now whenever ...
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Object Deploy fails with: “duplicate value found: <unknown> duplicates value on record with id”

When I try to redeploy an object that exists in source and destination orgs, the deploy fails with the cryptic and useless error message: duplicate value found <unknown> duplicates value on ...
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How to get Id of a object

Is there any way to find out the Id of an object,object may be custom or native like if I have a custom object i.e Test__c and when I write some query to get the Id then Id must be return in this ...
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Deleting a Class with IDE - cannot delete from Production?

When trying to delete a Class using IDE (simply right click and delete, and confirming I want it deleted in SF as well), it fails with the following screenshot. I have seen a couple posts via Google ...
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Deleting a class with IDE - can't connect to SF?

Can anyone shed some light on this error? I cannot connect to either Production OR my Sandbox with the IDE. :-( Thanks. This happens after entering user/pass/token in and selecting to get ...
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Force.com IDE unable to 'Refresh from Server' or 'Save to Server' and see updates from remote or local

I'm trying to cleanup our reports and am wanting to add a folder and drop all the unused reports in it for our execs to review. Thought it would save some time by utilizing force.com IDE and testing ...
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Consumption of API Requests on DEV org

I was reviewing the System Overview page in my Dev org when I noticed that the 'API REQUESTS, LAST 24 HOURS' was seemingly very high for a single user Dev org (initially at 2,964 or 58%). I did a ...
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“Show in Salesforce Web” not working - Eclipse / Force.com IDE

All of a sudden "Show in Salesforce Web" option (right click on project->Force.com->"Show in Salesforce Web") wasn't working, and when executed was opening wordpard and then failing. On google'ing ...
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In Force.con IDE - Error while deploying to Server

I am getting following error while deploying metadata to Force.com Server
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force.com ide can't connect to one sandbox org

I am getting the following error when I try to refresh my project or create a new project in the force.com ide Destinaton URL not reset. The URL returned from login must be set in the ...
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Adjust logging levels during code deployment?

Is there a way to adjust the various logging levels when deploying code to production through the IDE? The log is being truncated and I'm not seeing error details that are preventing my deployment. ...
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Metadata API-based deploys hang in “queued status” since 30.11 (cs7 & cs8 sandbox) [closed]

Is anybody else experiencing this? Several sandboxes in our Unlimited Edition seem to be having issues with deployments today (tested from Eclipse IDE and Migration Tool). The deploys just hang in ...
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eclipse + force.com ide plugin launch freeze problem

Some of us have been upgrading eclipse to juno, which is giving a lot of problems starting up. Specially after also upgrading the force plugin to winter13/api26 Sometimes it will load and launch (and ...
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Efficient way to find error causing “Save Error: Entity is not org-accessible”

I've ran into this issue once or twice before. The problem manifests itself as this in the Force.com IDE: The way I found the issue was by commenting out large swathes of code, and then saving the ...
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Why are code coverage results different in IDE and developer console?

The Apex coverage results for unit tests in the Force.com IDE and the developer console are very different. I just ran 2 tests in both and got: test 1 IDE: 75 lines not tests, 68% covered Developer ...
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Faster unit tests?

I'm running unit tests in Eclipse (Force.com IDE) and they are taking 5min+ to execute. Is there an alternative way to run them, or are there tips to speeding this up? I know I can run the tests from ...
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Delete Approval Process with the IDE or a similar tool?

Was just wondering if there was an easier way, than having to track down all the records related to that original process, and then waiting for recycle bin to do the full physical delete.
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Override Eclipse Metadata API Version

Is it possible to override the eclipse metadata api version? Often new details are available via the metadata api before the latest eclipse ide update (assuming that they actually include new stuff ...
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Any way to prevent stale error messages / autocomplete failure on Force.com IDE startup?

I have used the Force.com IDE for years now. I'm currently using the Summer 12 (latest, correct?) standalone version, although I also tried the Eclipse plugin against 3.6. I have recently started to ...
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How to “diff” components included in managed package versions

I'm trying to get a "diff"-like view of all components added in subsequent releases of a managed package. I know that the PackageVersion type, and its related types, are available through the Metadata ...
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How to use SVN without the IDE

With all the enhancements Salesforce is making to the Developer Console, I am considering moving my development environment into the cloud. The only problem with this is I have no good way to commit ...
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Development Team Best Practices, or “Is this IDE for real? I am in disbelief” [closed]

I have a family of questions that I am piling into one post, because my suspicion is that they will all point to a short list of bad practices that cause these quandaries. The way I have been taught ...
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Has anyone run into these two Winter 13 preview issues? [closed]

I know the Winter 13 preview has only just appeared, but I've run into two issues and am wondering if anyone else can reproduce them. I'm having trouble deploying code from a standard dev org ...

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