Retrieve Metadata Contents - Create Custom Content Templates

[Tony White]

When retrieving metadata, I would like to be able to use Contents : Custom, and then Save the items for future so I can got to Custom and select ‘My custom’.

This would then apply the checkboxes for what would be retrieved.

Why: We checkin our metadata for Profiles and Permission Sets for deployment, and need to update those when new objects/fields/classes etc are added. So being able to create a preset or template for selecting the items we want, and not having to get the whole project if there are parts we know we do not need for that step, would reduce the retrieval time. Currently I get timeouts because it is getting so much extra stuff by default.

[Scott Wells]

Yeah, this is something that’s been on my list for quite a long time. What I’ve specifically been considering is changing from the static selection of “Project”, “Module”, “Context” and “Custom” to allowing selection of any user-defined scope:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/settings-scopes.html

That provides an IDE-native, extremely powerful way to define the subset of metadata that should be included. The issue, though, at least when I last looked into it, is that scopes are defined based on local files only, and these operations need something that also includes org-only metadata.

Anyway, I’m really just kind of capturing my prior thoughts on this type of change for when I revisit it. But yes, this is something that’s been on my radar for some time.

[Scott Wells]

Issue #2461 should be covered by a proper implementation of this.

[Scott Wells]

This is almost certainly a dupe of another issue. I’ll rationalize and merge on a second pass.

[Scott Wells]

Duplicate of #745.