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Force.com IDE in brand new eclipse fails to Add/Remove Metadata Components (on specific Orgs)
I found a workaround for this issue: Instead of using the UI to Add/Remove Metadata Components you can do that editing the file /src/package.xml
If you use defaults, it looks like this:
<?xml ...
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Force.com IDE still in v38.0?
Since there's been a major push for Lightning, there's been a major lag with the Force.com IDE. You could fork the core and add 41.0 support, or even get on the dev branch if you wanted to get a peek ...
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Connect GIT project with Eclipse Force.com project
Since you've already cloned the repository, you can proceed as follows. Click on File > Import > Git / Projects from Git > Existing Local Repository > Add... (add your repo's local directory) > Import ...
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Can we still use eclipse to connect to salesforce and fetch all metadata
The Eclipse-based Force.com IDE has been end-of-lifed for a long time. Instead, use Visual Studio Code with the Salesforce Extension Pack.
The Org Browser feature may help to cover what you're looking ...
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Best IDE for Lightning Development?
There is no "best" editor, as each has different features that may be attractive to a particular developer. For example, one might want an IDE that also has Java support, or also has Git support, or ...
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Project upgrade to Winter 16 in Eclipse. What would happen really?
From the documentation:
When you create a Force.com project, it's designed to work with a specific version of the server. When the server is upgraded to the next version, your projects need to be ...
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Force.com IDE in brand new eclipse fails to Add/Remove Metadata Components (on specific Orgs)
Looks like the problem is in Eclipse working with Force.com IDE v38.0. I tried going back to v37.0 and it works fine.
First remove v38.0 (via Help->Installation Details). You can then download ...
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How to deploy Visualforce Pages using force.com IDE without messed up .page-meta.xml referencing unnecessary managed packages?
In an ant build script, I usually include the following:
<target name="strip">
<replaceregexp flags="gs">
<regexp pattern="\s*<(listViews|...
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ApexPMD Custom ruleset
As the original contributor of the PMD Apex language module all I can add here is to clarify a common misunderstanding that is the root for many confusion here on StackExchange:
There are two PMD ...
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Project upgrade to Winter 16 in Eclipse. What would happen really?
If you don't observe any changes, they were probably just white space changes (e.g. replacing spaces with tabs). Technically, the upgrade process is setting a new API version, refreshing the metadata, ...
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Is there a way to refresh only changes from a specific developer in the Force.com IDE (Eclipse)?
Harry and Sally should not be sharing a development org. They should each have their own development org, so that they can each pull in just their own changes, and merge those changes to a branches ...
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Extract an Installed Package from one Instance and install into another?
Maybe
If you know three key pieces of information, and if the app isn't deleted, you can still reinstall it. This assumes it is a "managed package". You will need the "namespace", the "version", and ...
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Eclipse New Project Error: OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
I have also faced this issue many time. You can do one thing .Once you get this error now change radio button to None and click save. It will fetch all your selected data and you can continue your ...
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Compile errors on Apex scripts that used to work fine
It turns out that I had a query with a syntax error, 'DSC' instead of 'DESC'.
I found the real problem by correctly structuring my code as a class and pasting it into a new class file. thanks to ...
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How to preview lightning application in browser directly from force.com ide eclipse
The option "Show in Salesforce Web" is not intended to take you to a preview of your Lightning application. It's trying to take you to the metadata definition of the component you selected - if you ...
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.gitignore for various IDEs
Disclaimer: .gitignores tend to accumulate entries over time and never have them removed; they're kind of cargo-cult files. It is not a bad practice to start with a minimal .gitignore in your project, ...
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exclude search strings from vscode search results
You can use negative lookahead in regex to exclude matches. Case sensitivity can be handled as part of regex control flags, though this may be outside the expression itself depending on the tool.
A ...
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Eclipse Force.com IDE and " Run Specified Tests "
Workbench also allows you to pick the 'Run Specified Tests' option and this could be used with a package created with other tools as long as you have a zip file with the directories and a package.xml ...
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ApexPMD Custom ruleset
1.You need to have maven configured on your machine to build the package.
Build PMD and test your new rule
https://github.com/Up2Go/codeclimate-apexmetrics/wiki/build-pmd-and-test-your-...
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Eclipse Force.com IDE save/Deployment
In the Force.com IDE there is a difference between saving the file locally and saving it to the SF server.
Saving it locally just saves the changes to your file system and doesn't compile it in ...
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ApexPMD eclipse plugin for Salesforce
Did you check the checkbox to enable PMD from project properties? right click on project>> Properties >> Click on PMD(or whatever name you have given while installing the PMD plugIn) >> at top left ...
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Not able to see all components after installing Force.com IDE
You need to modify your package.xml manifest file. You can add any components you want there. Then refresh your src folder.
You can see how to include most types in your manifest by looking in the ...
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How to mass populate State & Country picklist values
Here's a batch class that creates all ISO states:
approx 5,000 default state codes
it screen scrapes the 'Configure New State' form,
then posts back to the setup menu to create each picklist value:
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Trouble importing email template with package.xml
It needs to be "Folder Name/Template Name", like this:
<types>
<members>Folder_Name/Unique_Name_Of_Template</members>
<name>EmailTemplate</name>
</types>
This ...
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Change Field Labels through Force.com IDE
First, you need to have pulled that field as part of your project metadata through the Add/Remove Components interface (under right click project->Force.com).
When the field metadata has been pulled, ...
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Force.com Project in Eclipse: OutOfMemoryError: Java Heap Space
The organization that you are working on may have several, large managed packages installed. To check if they exist, look under
Setup
Installed Packages in Classic and Setup
Apps
Installed ...
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Retrieving packaged(Managed ) objects custom fields into Eclipse with Force.com IDE to deploy to another org
Since this is part of a namespace it cannot be taken out of the containing package and deployed to another org. Instead you need to install that package on your target org.
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Eclipse Force.com IDE
As stated in the documentation:
After October 12, 2019, support, updates, documentation, and downloads for the Force.com IDE will no longer be available.
The only way you can hope to even get a ...
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Solid metadata search and backup
There are a couple of ways this can be solved easily,
1. By Building a package.xml for the whole org
This is easily doable using a tool like Package Builder or a VSCode extension like this one. Once ...
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Eclipse Force.com IDE cannot create project
I simply couldn't get it to work trying everything I could think of, so I downgraded to Java JDK8 and it worked fine.
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