In this case, if you want to deploy an entire workflow, the metadata type name that you'd use is WorkflowĪlthough the documentation only provides one example (which is rather unfortunate, I think), the general format that you'll use for including a workflow in a package.xml file is documented on the documentation for the Workflow metadata typeįinding the fully qualified name is a bit trickier. The metadata type name is exactly what you use in between in your package.xml file, and I believe it works for everything except the metadata types listed in unsupported metadata types. The fully qualified name of the thing you're trying to retrieve/deployįor finding the metadata type name, I find the metadata api types documentation to be a good resource.csv file records in Custom Metadata Type.For adding things to a package.xml file, you need two pieces of information:
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If you don’t want to do above steps, you have easier options as well – You can find a Custom Metadata Loader tool on GitHub that you have to download and install in your Salesforce org. Right click on Custom Metadata folder and click on “Deploy Source to Org”Īfter successful execution of this command your Custom Metadata Type records will be inserted in your org. Now you will see the all custom metadata type records that have been created in your local machine in project folder. If you have any space or any other special char in “Name” (Label) field replace with underscore(_)Į.g ‘ sfdx force:cmdt:record:insert –filepath CountryMapping.csv –typename CountryMapping_mdt‘.It must be unique, begin with a letter, not include spaces, not end with an underscore, and not contain two consecutive underscores. Label (Name) API Name can only contain underscores and alphanumeric characters.Put the column name same as fields API name.csv file and store in your project folder or any folder you want.
Here I am using ‘Org Browser’ extension to fetch the metadata information from Salesforce org. Click on icon Retrieve Source From Org on ‘Custom Object’. Now fetch the Custom Metadata Type definition from your Salesforce org to your local machine. Open your VSCODE IDE and create a project (If you already have project created on your vscode skip this step) Setup> Quick find> search ‘custom metadata’ and click on “New Custom Metadata Type”.Ĭreate the Custom Metadata Type and fields. If you already have (custom metadata type) skip creation/definition steps. This provides the powerful command line interface (CLI) that makes things super easy for the developers to work with Salesforce Orgs for developing, continuous integration, and delivery.Ĭreate a CustomMetadataType in your Salesforce org. Salesforce Developer Experience (DX) is a new way to manage and develop the salesforce application.
Let’s see how we can do mass CustomMetadataType records insert using Salesforce CLI. This is a recommended approach for this task. The SalesforceDX CLI? Yes, we can now import the CustomMetadataType records using cmdt command. We know “Data Loader” is to load the data but here CustomMetadata is not real data.Īnt Migration Tool ? You can choose this tool for this job but this is not that I recommend. Salesforce Data Loader ? As of now “Data Loader” does not support CustomMetaDataType (We don’t know yet when this will be available in future). Let’s check what options we have to do this: Are you facing challenges inserting mass CustomMetadataType records in Salesforce org? this blog post will help you.