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Trying to figure out how I'm going to track what changes in each installation of a managed package in Salesforce (in this case, Rootstock, but also possibly Financial Force). Not necessarily Apex changes (though an effective way of seeing that would be great), but objects added/removed, dependencies, etc.

I'm not going to rely upon, or trust, any list maintained by a human at the Managed Package provider's company.

So my plan is to do it in Excel. Simply grab a dump of the "View Components" and "View Dependencies" screens and store them in an ongoing spreadsheet with some simple formulas/routines to compare.

Problem I ran into is: I can't even load the View Components/Dependencies screen (so far..) in either sandbox OR Production. Waited 15 minutes in Sandbox (telling Chrome constantly to "wait" for it to respond). Waited 10 minutes so far in Production.

Any thoughts on how to obtain this same listing? Thanks!

Bad...

Bad

...worse.

Worse - timeout

Example of good output for reference.

Good result

UPDATE: 45 minutes, still waiting... 45 minutes later

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  • You mentioned FF, common issue when that is installed. Even trying to create a VF page causes timeout. Takes several attempts and a lot of waiting but it will eventually load....
    – Eric
    Commented Nov 17, 2016 at 16:36
  • Hah. I'll bet you haven't met Rootstock. Ugh. Sweet mercy... Over 540 custom objects. Either 14k or 17k fields therein according to SF support on a case we have open. No clue how many lines of code (would be morbidly interested in knownig). "Only" 82 tabs (ahem). Visualforce EVERYWHERE (so no benefit of standard views, mixed bag there). I keep retelling myself to appreciate what it DOES DO and was purchased FOR........ I need a mantra......
    – AMM
    Commented Nov 18, 2016 at 16:44
  • But the package doesn't count against my org limits, so that makes it all better. (that's called Sarcasm, folks) :-)
    – AMM
    Commented Nov 18, 2016 at 16:45
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    Haha, I am glad I am not is supply chain management or accounting. It is amazing to me that cloud solutions like this exist when most companies have such specific requirements. Impressive actually....BUT it does take a performance hit. I would hate to be the first person in the AM to "Warm up" the org. good gawd....
    – Eric
    Commented Nov 18, 2016 at 18:10
  • Have you tried re-compiling all classes to see if that makes a difference?
    – Phil Hawthorn
    Commented Nov 23, 2016 at 21:42

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I would recommend using a tool that get's your org's metadata through the metadata API.

For example if you use eclipse, go to the root of your project, there is a folder that is named "Referenced Packages" open it and there you see all packages installed with their components.

Now - if you use a version control system on your project like git, you can easily track changes to all folders and files with it.

You can use also other tools like ant Force.com Migration Tool or other IDEs.

Another choice is to buy a third party tool like OwnBackup for backing up your org's data and metadata, there you can easily compare versions of metadata backups

I Use this backup tool so I can recommend it, it is easy to use, but it cost money...

Good luck

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  • Thanks for the options..! Not wanting to be in the dev world any deeper than necessary, Git is not what I'd want, but you have several ideas that bear investigation. Thanks again.
    – AMM
    Commented Nov 21, 2016 at 16:45
  • Metadata tools FROM WITHIN SF do not work either. Eclipse ends up being the "obvious" (sigh) choice. Unfortunately. Thanks. ;)
    – AMM
    Commented Mar 13, 2017 at 14:15
  • I use today Illuminated Cloud. this is the best tool for any development mission. cost a little but does great work!!!
    – Itai Shmida
    Commented Mar 13, 2017 at 20:27

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