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Resolve "Data Owner" User metadata from difference comparisons (always exclude or compare, then exclude)
Salesforce has begun adding User metadata to fields. One good example right now is the "Data Owner" field that appears on all custom fields now (in XML this field is labelled as "BusinessOwnerUser"). The field does not link via a Salesforce ID; it instead displays the Salesforce Username of the user.
Naturally, this field in 99.9% of Salesforce environment comparisons is going to be different. "user@domain.com.sandbox" won't ever match to "user@domain.com" in production-- and it definitely won't ever match to any other Sandbox, either.
This leads to a nightmare scenario where if this field has been…
5 votesWe have added a problem analyzer to detect and fix the issue with ‘businessOwnerUser’, as follows.
Problem: custom fields referencing a specific user will fail if that user doesn’t exist in the target.
Solution: this will replace the source ‘businessOwnerUser’ reference with the value from the target’s custom field.
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Allow users to discard chunks/certain changes before deploying to target
For example I'm on the diff screen and I see my page layout has 5 changes/chunks of changes, but I only want to commit/deploy the first one - please add functionality so that I can discard/ignore the other 4 changes in the file and only deploy the one change I want.
5 votesYou can now exclude fields and other items in page layouts from being deployed using Gearset's new Precision deployments feature: https://docs.gearset.com/en/articles/6407322-getting-started-with-precision-layout-deployments
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Treat "New" FLS entries that don't grant any access as "Not Different" in Profiles and Permission Sets
Due to a recent change in the SF API, Permission sets now display every field in the org as a "New" FLS item, with Readable and Editable both set to False. This is leading to two distinctly negative results.
1) For every "Permissions for FieldNameXXX" item, every permission set in the org is modified. If two projects on two different sandboxes each add a field, they will both modify modify all the same files, and require manual XML merge. for our org thats almost 70 files that need manual merge with every new field.
2) When you dig into a…
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Optimize "Refresh Comparison" to only pull metadata that has been changed since the last comparison
Currently, clicking Refresh Comparison does not optimize the comparison in any way, it just allows you to skip selecting some of the configuration steps from running a new comparison.
This means that it takes the same amount of time actually comparing the orgs.
It would be nice if on clicking of "refresh comparison" the logic didn't run a full compare and instead just looked at metadata that had been changed since the last compare in order to reduce the comparison time.
21 votesHi everyone
We have now shipped the three key improvements to refreshing a comparison.
You are now able to:
- refresh a single item (right-click an item in the grid or use Refresh Item button in the Diff viewer)
- refreshing selected items (right-click a selected item in the grid)
- refresh only additional types in the filter (via Refresh comparison -> Filter dialog)
We hope these enhancements will greatly reduce the comparison time for you.
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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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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 votesThis is now done. Thanks for the suggestion.
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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…
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Add Prompt metadata type
Please add the new Prompt metadata type
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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,
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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 votesWhen 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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Allow deployments across managed package versions
Gearset does not allow comparisons or deployments of custom metadata on managed packages if the versions are different. We got ourselves in a situation where a package in the sandbox was a higher beta version that we couldn't upgrade to. This required us to do all the field deployments via changsets.
Adding a warning for deployments across managed package versions would be ideal as most changes one would deploy wouldn't necessarily cause any issues.
4 votesWe've added the ability to deploy across managed package versions using the Package Item Version Handling dropdown option within the filter sidebar.
If you have any feedback on this, please let us know!
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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 votesWe’ve made this option available now. See https://docs.gearset.com/en/articles/2413367-why-is-xml-order-of-some-metadata-in-the-comparison-results-different for more information.
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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 votesYou can now deploy single layout Items using Gearset's new Precision deployments feature: https://docs.gearset.com/en/articles/6407322-getting-started-with-precision-layout-deployments
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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 voteWe’ve now shown this on the `In Progress` page.
If there are other places you’d like to see it, then feedback always welcome to submit an idea for that specific page!
Kevin
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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 votesWe have made a release to address this, can you please let us know if this matches your expectations?
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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 <= y2 votesGearset now has the ability for custom data ranges using a date picker, which should allow you to filter to all the examples that you’ve shown.
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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.
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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 votesField 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!
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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 votesReleased on 10th of Aug 2022
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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.
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