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Deployment to Production Org using VS Code
I need one help to deploy different components like classes, triggers, objects, profiles, permission sets, etc from sandbox to the production org.
I used following command to deploy all the items on ...
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Deploy only modified metadata in GitLab to Org
I followed this Trailhead "Build an Automated CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab" and have successfully built a pipeline that can deploy [or install] a package into an Org each time I push some changes into ...
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Getting null values when retrieving Flows via Apex Metadata API
When attempting to retrieve Flow-specific data via the Apex Metadata API each value in the key-value pairs is null. Here is the code:
private static void getFlowMetadata(Double apiVersion, ...
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force:mdapi:convert command fails when source has a utility js file
I'm trying to follow the SFDX Developer Guide to convert an unlocked package to SFDX source format
I'm receiving the following error:
$ sfdx force:mdapi:convert --rootdir mdapipkg --outputdir ...
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Error deploying to Packaging Org: force:mdapi:deploy - “An unknown exception has occurred.”
We deleted a managed Apex Class and then started getting a "An unknown exception has occurred." during the force:mdapi:deploy process. We then restored this deleted Apex Class, but the "An unknown ...
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Push source to scratch org fails but mdapi:deploy works
I am in the process of converting an existing Managed Package to Salesforce DX and
Retrieved the Metadata from the packaging org
Converted it to Source format
Created a scratch org and
pushed source ...
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How to retrieve Custom Profiles' objectpermissions using SFDX or MDAPI
Problem
The <objectPermissions> tags are missing from my custom profiles when I pull from a scratch-org using SFDX or MDAPI.
Steps to reproduce
Create a new Scrach-org.
Create a custom ...
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Can I retrieve an Email Alert via the Ant Migration Tool?
I wanted to retrieve an Email Alert via the Ant Migration Tool. However, I could not find it in a Metadata Types Reference. I suppose it's hidden under some other name like many other SF Metadata ...
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sfdx mdapi --wait parameter not working?
Followed a module in trailhead and when i got to the part where i was needed to deploy my work using this command
sfdx force:mdapi:deploy -d mdapioutput -u MyTP -w 10
it throws an error. saying:
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SFDX development 'without ScratchOrg and Unlocked Packages' with Git [closed]
I think that the first reaction that anyone will have after reading my question will be 'Why do you want to move to DX without using ScratchOrgs and Unlocked Packages'?
Well, we are planning to use ...
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Does exist an option to validate deploy without saving in sfdx for metadata that aren't in the Metadata API format?
With sfdx is possible to deploy metadata to orgs that don't have source tracking, such as sandoboxes, either with sfdx force:source:deploy or sfdx force:mdapi:deploy. The first one uses metadata in ...
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How to uninstall apex-mdapi package
A while back, I installed mdapi (https://github.com/financialforcedev/apex-mdapi) from github using the 'Deploy to Salesforce' button. We no longer need it, and it is taking up a lot of room in our ...
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Is it possible to remove components from a Change Set using the Metadata API?
I'm using a trick that was mentioned in this related question to programmatically add elements to a Change Set using the Salesforce Metadata API. Basically, you treat the name of the Change Set as ...
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How to list all the metadata that is changed after a given date
how to get all the metadata changes after a given date.
Tried using metadata api's listMetadata(), this gives all the data and here we can't filter using dates. This will run into limits for reports ...
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Can OWD be imported/exported as metadata?
I'm currently trying to create a scratch org which reflects our ludicrously complicated production org which contains hundreds of Roles.
Upon deploying most of these, I get errors like:
Error src/...
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force:mdapi:convert duplicate files
I've been trying to commit to having version control in our org, and I have been using DX to do so. My biggest complaint right now is that I end up having a ton of .dup files. And I don't know of the ...
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FIELD_INTEGRITY_EXCEPTION when trying to update/create metadata records in managed package
We are using mdapi to create/update metadata records in a managed package. Everything works fine in the packaging as well as any other developer orgs. However, when we install the beta package in a ...
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Error deploying mdapi to packaging org with a namespace
I had a SFDX project which I converted to follow the "sfdx-falcon-template" structure. I also created a packaging org that would be used as a base for my managed package.
Next I created a namespace ...
