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Force.com Tips and Tricks

By : Ankit Arora, Abhinav Gupta
Book Image

Force.com Tips and Tricks

By: Ankit Arora, Abhinav Gupta

Overview of this book

<p>Force.com is an extremely powerful, scalable and secure cloud platform, delivering a complete technology stack covering the ground from database and security to workflow and user interface.</p> <p>Force.com Tips and Tricks starts with very basic admin tasks and gradually moves to hard-core coding tips and tricks for the multitenant Force.com platform.</p> <p>The book starts with the basics of Cloud Computing and Principles and constructs of Force.com. The book then swiftly move to detailed coverage of Salesforce analytics.</p> <p>The book also shows how to set up development environments and and gives detailed understanding of tools and destinations that every Force.com developer should know. The book also covers important administration concepts where you gain vital information for key topics such as schema and reporting for an organization. For Force.com, troubleshooting a problem and code reuse are two important aspects that help in boosting productivity, a complete chapter is dedicated to these tasks.</p> <p>This book takes you beyond any documentation or course and promises hands-on expertise.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Force.com Tips and Tricks
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Force.com Migration Tool


Force.com Migration Tool is a Java- or Ant-based command-line utility for scripting deployments to move metadata between a local directory and a Force.com organization. This tool can be downloaded from your Salesforce org. Navigate to Your Name | Setup | Develop | Tools and then click on Force.com Migration Tool.

Consider using this tool in the following scenarios:

  • When you need to populate a test environment with frequent and large volumes of setup changes where the web interface could consume a lot of time

  • Where there is a multistage release process, the scripted deployment process is much more time efficient

  • When there is a repetitive process for retrieving and deploying a fixed set of metadata components with the same parameters

  • When you are already familiar with the scripted deployment process using Apache Ant

The tool uses the configuration file build.properties for determining org connections and the package.xml file for determining the deployment components. The...