Salesforce Features
Force.com Metadata API enhancements
More Power and Flexibility in Configuring Salesforce
Developer Preview
- Use the Force.com metadata API to read setup configuration from any Salesforce instance
- Write setup changes to Developer Edition and Force.com Sandbox environments
The Force.com metadata API opens the door to new ways of interacting with setup and customization information for Force.com applications. This enables better developer tool experiences, team development systems, and change management processes. The Winter ’08 release offers metadata access to a subset of platform features including custom fields, custom objects, profiles, Apex code, Visualforce pages, and s-controls.
Training and Documentation
Feature Details
- Write Support: Previous versions of the Force.com API allowed only read access to setup information such as schemas, tabs, and profiles. This new API adds the ability to write changes to those elements back to the platform, greatly expanding the opportunity for new ways of interacting with instance configuration beyond the current application framework experience.
- Metadata Text Support: Also new in this release is the ability to interact with metadata data as a set of XML-based files, allowing the definition of a Force.com application or Salesforce customization to be externalized into a transparent, easily modified, and portable format.
Note: The metadata API is available as a developer preview with Salesforce Winter ’08 and will not be generally available with this release.
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