Force.com Migration Tool Sample Config

This repo provides a simple setup of using ANT from your local machine to deploy and retrieve metadata with Salesforce.

Setup

Follow the instructions here:

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.daas.meta/daas/meta_development.htm

You will need to install ANT (if not already installed), and put the ant-salesforce.jar in the correct location (depending on OS).

Following that, enter your settings in the build.properties file, which includes your username, password, URL and other options.

Commands

Deploy

ant deploy

Put your package.xml and deployment contents into the deploy folder, and type ant deploy from the command line (from this root directory).

Retrieve

ant get

Put your package.xml of what you want to retrieve, and type ant get in your command line. This will retrieve all contents of your package.xml into the retireved folder.

Retrieve Changeset

ant getChangeset

Used to retrieve all contents of a changeset. Put your changeset name in the build.properties file and run ant getChangeset from the command line.

Deploy with Test Subset

ant deploySpecificTests

Use this to deploy by running just a subset of test methods. Update the deploySpecificTests deploy target in the build.xml file with the list of tests to run