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  1. Deploy CMS/CRM Connection and and CMS Collections

    We would like to be able to deploy CMS/CRM Connection and and CMS Collections. They are a part of Community Workspace.

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  2. Stop Reordering Package.xml

    We would like to keep our package.xml file in alphabetical/lexicographical order by the <type> element. Gearset appears to change the order so that datatypes that include all <members> elements (i.e. use an asterisk) are placed at the bottom of the file. This inconsistent sort order makes datatypes harder to find when viewing or amending the file.

    2 votes

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  3. Deployment screen to show which components were selected vs included

    When you get to the summary page, often times you will be deploying with the need for sub-components to be included in the package despite them being actual changes.

    When you're selecting those items inside the comparison page, it would be helpful to see that total be reflected in the deployment summary page. So if you picked 50 items to deploy but it needed an additional 1,000 components (despite them having No Difference) then we should see those breakdowns on the Deployment Summary

    Gearset soft alrt message "Some components with difference type of No difference have been added to the…

    1 vote

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  4. Add Prompt metadata type

    Please add the new Prompt metadata type

    1 vote

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  5. Dependency Enhancement for App Menu metadata

    Currently, when we compare App Menu metadata, the "Depends On" tree is empty, even though it definitely has dependencies on connectedApps and customApplications.

    Please add dependency analysis for App Menu metadata,

    1 vote

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  6. 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.

    4 votes

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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.

    More details: https://gearset.com/blog/smarter-salesforce-comparisons-that-hide-reordered-xml/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_post&utm_content=blog_smarter_salesforce_comparisons

  7. Enhance XML meta data comparison to ignore changes in XML order

    In org monitoring we frequently get notification about changes an the only thing is a change to the order of the XML elements returned.
    The XML is virtually the same but the order of elements returned changed from one day to the other.

    It makes differentiating "real" changes from those false positives time-consuming.

    It would be great if those kind of changes could be ignored or if there was an option to configure the XML comparison behavior for each monitoring job.

    15 votes

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  8. Deploy single layoutitems

    In Layouts there are multiple layoutItems. it would be helpful if we could to deploy single <layoutItems> from a Layout without affecting other <layoutItems>.

    10 votes

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  9. Display API version underneath source and target on Comparison In Progress and other pages

    When deploying from org to GIT or vice-versa, the API version being used should be echoed (small font) everywhere the source and target names are shown (such as at top of Comparison in Progress)

    This is especially important for GIT where Gearset in the absence of other info will default to V37 that in turn causes issues with picklist comparisons. It can also be important during Sandbox Preview of new releases

    1 vote

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  10. Search for test classes

    It would be nice to be able to search for test classes instead of having to type them out in a comma separated list. Gearset already has such a nice search capability and it would be great if it were applied to that dialog as well.

    8 votes

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  11. Filter comparions by date since x

    The current functionality for filtering by date is welcomed, but I would like to suggest the ability to filter by date range.
    Just some examples:
    Date >= x
    Date <= x
    Date >= x and <= y

    2 votes

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  12. Allow me to exclude metadata.

    I have certain metadata which is broken or dangerous to migrate from a dev org, I'd like to exclude it from this and subsequent releases. If I could 'right click' and ignore it that would be good.

    20 votes

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  13. Ability to select Field Sets as a separate item

    It seems that Field Sets are deployed by deploying the object that they are related to.

    This doesn't work well for me because I have admins changing objects in production, but I often need to deploy a Field Set to go with my code.

    Currently, I'm jumping out of Gearset and deploying a Change Set with just the Field Sets, then coming back to Gearset to deploy my code.

    It would be nice if I could select just the Field Sets and deploy them without changing anything else related to the object.

    8 votes

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    Field sets are currently deployable as individual items assuming the object they belong to already exists in some form in the target. If the object the field sets belong to doesn’t exist in target yet, then it must first be partially created in the target for Gearset to be able to deploy individual sub components. Thanks for the suggestion!

  14. Allow multi-selection of items with CTRL or SHIFT

    It would be great to be able to select multiple items in a comparison using crtl or shift click, rather than checking the boxes one by one

    8 votes

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  15. provide a verification that a metadata filter is to be deleted.

    It's far too easy to delete a custom metadata filter. When deleted, there is no way to retrieve it. Currently, I create backups of the filter by storing them with the same filter name and datetime. It's in case someone or even myself accidentally deletes the filter.

    1 vote

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  16. Compare to a Specified Source Control Folder vs. Root of Source Control Repository during Comparisons.

    I would like the ability to specify a file folder when comparing a sandbox to version control. Most of my salesforce projects have a SRC folder with the contents of my package.xml. By not allowing a source folder when selecting the branch to compare, it renders this comparison useless as all files show as new. Please implement this feature to allow a directory for comparison so that I can justify using / selling this tool.

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  17. Have a way to exclude objects from comparison

    Before using Gearset we used the Force.Com migration tool. We got to learn that several things just can't be deployed to sandboxes so we always excluded them from source control, or learnt to not merge them.

    Gearset has filters which mean you can specify things to include, but it would be nice to have things it would automatically exclude for you (i.e. not show in comparison). Some of these it already knows not to try and deploy. Things like

    Admin.ProfileUserPermission.EditBillingInfo
    Admin.ProfileUserPermission.ManageSandboxes
    etc.

    but there's a few other random pieces that I have to remember to untick each time or deployment…

    9 votes

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    You can now exclude specific items in your custom metadata filters in a similar way to how you include specific items.

    This won’t cover some cases, such as excluding subcomponents like specific user permissions within a profile, but for those cases let’s open a new specific feature request.

  18. Fix Keyboard shortcuts for selecting differences

    When I have a lot of changes to review I'd like to use arrow keys to go up/down and expect "space" to toggle the checkbox for that. However the checkbox focus doesn't move with the highlighted row - so it doesn't work :(

    1 vote

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  19. Include ability to add inclusion/exclusion option for custom filters

    For custom filters we need to exclude objects that are non-relevant. Most often these are managed packages (eg. fflib*, al, rstk__, etc). The only way to do this currently is to deselect all items and manually select each item individually. Not only is this a laborious process, this means that anytime any other new objects are created, these custom filters will ALWAYS need to be updated in order to include them. An inclusion/exclusion filter offers greater flexibility and is maintainable. The current approach is neither a manageable nor scalable process for a large development team. Alternatively, add…

    2 votes

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  20. Include select all option for Manage Custom Filters

    Selecting individual items to include for custom filters is a laborious process. We have to exclude 6000 items and we are unable to do this manually. Please add the select all option when using a filter in the manage custom filters dialog so multiple items can be selected at once.

    1 vote

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