Unscramble order of <excludeButtons> tags in Layout metadata
Page Layouts use the <excludeButtons> element to indicate the presence or absence of standard buttons on a layout.
But this element appears in an arbitrary order when retrieved. Unlike other metadata which gets canonicalized by sorting alphabetically.
Gearset could sort these elements to avoid the random order causing random diffs to appear in metadata comparisons when in reality there is no difference.
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When Gearset detects that the only differences in your Layout are the result of reordering, and so there aren't any real differences to show you, it will automatically consider this metadata to be unchanged. As a result, this Layout won't appear in the list of changed metadata and will no longer clutter up your comparison results.
If there are any material differences in your Layouts, they will still appear in your comparison results as normal.
And you'll be able to use the Hide reordering checkbox to filter out any immaterial differences, just as you would for other metadata types.
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Ralph Callaway
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