April 2019 archive

Salesforce Deployment Using ANT Migration Tool – Part 3

Please follow the steps below to setup ant in your machine Download ANT from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi Extract the downloaded zip file somewhere like C:\apache-ant-1.9.4-bin\apache-ant-1.9.4 Set this path in system variables as ANT_HOME. If PATH system variable already exists then add %ANT_HOME% to your path variable, else add new PATH variable and keep this value. Also create a JAVA_HOME environment …

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Salesforce Deployment Using ANT Migration Tool – Part 2

Below is an example. We will first retrieve the components from source org and then will deploy those components to the target org. Here is the folder that we have initially. We have build.xml and build.properties file here and one folder named “unpackaged” in which we have our package.xml. This package.xml file contains the list …

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Salesforce Deployment Using ANT Migration Tool – Part 1

Force.com migration tool(based on JAVA), is used to deploy the Metadata from one organization to other organization or we can use it to retrieve the metadata from one organization and then make some changes locally and then deploy that metadata again to the same organization. Advantages of ANT over Changesets The main advantage of this …

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