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Ken Koellner
Import/Export/Report on Field Metadata/description/inline help.
I'd like to get our business users to more completely fillin in the Description text and Inline Help for many custom fields. Visiting each via the web interface to definitions would be tedius. What I'd like is a way to import/export/report metadata for custom field definitions are flat fields. (Editing XML is a bit too techie.) Unfortunately, unlike most RDMSs, SF doesn't represent Metadata as data so you can't use SOQL on metadata or update it with Apex. I know there is a Metadata API but I don't have time to write an application using it to build an editor.
Does anyone know of any existing utility that will allow exporting, reporting, and importing of some attributes of custom fields?
I'd want to export/report the type, name, api name, description, and inline help. I'd like import description and maybe inline help.
Any ideas?
Does anyone know of any existing utility that will allow exporting, reporting, and importing of some attributes of custom fields?
I'd want to export/report the type, name, api name, description, and inline help. I'd like import description and maybe inline help.
Any ideas?
Please refer ccto this post:
https://success.salesforce.com/answers?id=90630000000hqgcAAA
Thanks,
Pratik
What's trully annoying is that the describe methods available can extract all the information on fields except the Description attribute. That is not exposed. So we can't pull descriptions that have already be entered in the metadata itself.
And then I've also been playing with Element Cloud (https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000EJicYUAT" target="_blank) if you want to serioulsy organize Description and Help, and properly organize your whole instance as well. It's a new tool that has some roots in SAP will let you not only report on, but update help and description fields in your production and all linked sandbox instances, map out complete operational flows, report on used fields, etc. It's only been out for a couple of months but is getting solid 5 star reviews. It's paid, but not awful (for the admin only - about USD 60/month, but viewing is free for users), comes with a 2 week free trial.