I am trying to retrieve Process builder flows from sandbox org using Ant migration tool and it is failing to retrieve flows with this message :
[sf:retrieve] package.xml - Entity of type 'Flow' named 'Account_Flow' cannot be found
My Package.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
<types>
<members>Account_Flow</members>
<name>Flow</name>
</types>
<version>41.0</version>
</Package>
NOTE: I did not write this package.xml by hand but it was generated by Salesforce package builder.
Build.xml
<project name="Sample usage of Salesforce Ant tasks" default="test" basedir="." xmlns:sf="antlib:com.salesforce">
<property file="build.properties"/>
<property environment="env"/>
<property name="sf.username" value="${env.SF_USERNAME}"/>
<property name="sf.password" value="${env.SF_PASSWORD}"/>
<property name="sf.serverurl" value="${env.SF_URL}"/>
<property name="sf.maxPoll" value="${env.SF_MAXPOLL}"/>
<taskdef resource="com/salesforce/antlib.xml" uri="antlib:com.salesforce">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="../ant-salesforce.jar" />
</classpath>
</taskdef>
<target name="retrieveUnpackaged">
<mkdir dir="retrieveUnpackaged"/>
<!-- Retrieve the contents into another directory -->
<sf:retrieve username="${sf.username}" password="${sf.password}" sessionId="${sf.sessionId}" serverurl="${sf.serverurl}" maxPoll="${sf.maxPoll}" retrieveTarget="retrieveUnpackaged" unpackaged="unpackaged/package.xml"/>
</target>
</project>
Folder structure:
Laptop:~/workspace/DEV_Environment$ tree
.
├── ant-salesforce.jar
└── ANTFolder
├── build.properties
├── build.xml
├── retrieveUnpackaged
└── unpackaged
└── package.xml
Command output:
Laptop:~/workspace/DEV_Environment/ANTFolder$ ant retrieveUnpackaged
Buildfile: /workspace/Dev_Environment/ANTFolder/build.xml
retrieveUnpackaged:
[mkdir] Created dir: /workspace/Dev_Environment/ANTFolder/retrieveUnpackaged
[sf:retrieve] Request for a retrieve submitted successfully.
[sf:retrieve] Request ID for the current retrieve task: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYrUAG
[sf:retrieve] Waiting for server to finish processing the request...
[sf:retrieve] Request Status: Pending
[sf:retrieve] Request Status: InProgress
[sf:retrieve] Request Status: Succeeded
[sf:retrieve] Retrieve warnings (1):
[sf:retrieve] package.xml - Entity of type 'Flow' named 'Account_Flow' cannot be found
[sf:retrieve] Finished request YYYYYYYYYYYYYYrUAG successfully.
There is a known issue for the same error but it says this error will happen only if we use the sf:bulkRetrieve
and workaround suggested is to use sf:retrieve
. I am using sf:retrieve
and still getting the error.
I tried with Ant jar 42.0 and still same output.
Anyone ran into same error?
<Flow>*</Flow>
and it worked. Thanks.