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Mass Updating Profile Object Permissions Via ANT Migration Tool
User Story We have a new object in our organization. We must update our existing profiles to have appropriate permission sets for the object. Some profiles will have Read access, others will have Edit access. We want to automate this because we have dozens of profiles, and we have to make this change in a…
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Getting Started With ANT: Retrieving Metadata via ANT Migration Tool for Salesforce
User Story We want to automate parts of our deployments using Salesforce’s Metadata API. Background Per Salesforce, the ANT Migration Tool is a “command-line utility for moving metadata between a local directory and a Salesforce org.” Using ANT, repetitive deployment tasks can be automated using Salesforce’s Metadata API. This tutorial assumes that you have the…