Error: Need to specify full name, Name:Email_and_Posts, Delimiter:.

[Roman Prytkov]

Hi Scott, I met the error when I tried to retrieve all metadata in my project: Error: Need to specify full name, Name:Email_and_Posts, Delimiter:. Can you, please, look on it.

Log file is attached.

Regards, Roman Prytkov

[Scott Wells]

Roman, I really apologize for the long-delayed reply on this. Let me review your logs and see if I can provide some info on what's happening.

[Scott Wells]

So the problem seems to be this:

      {
        "members": [
          "Email_and_Posts"
        ],
        "name": "CustomFeedFilter"
      }

Evidently the names for the CustomFeedFilter metadata type need to be qualified in some way that's not reported by metadata.

Is your metadata subscription configured as Selected or Package.xml. If the former, the workaround for now is the remove this item from your metadata subscription while I research the core issue. If the latter, you should be able to qualify this yourself in the package.xml file.

I'll keep researching why this is breaking and try to put together a fix, but hopefully that gives you some options to work around it while I do so.

[Roman Prytkov]

Scott, Thank you for your answer and suggested workaround! In the beginning I tried to retrieve ALL metadata by "All/Package" option and met described above problem. Then I switched to "Selected" option and removed this problem "CustomFeedFilter" metadata from subscription. After that I was able to retrieve subscription. I am sure that you will adjust your code for this SF behaviour. Regards, Roman

[Scott Wells]

Ah, okay. Yes, I generally discourage the use of All/Package unless you're authoring a managed package and have selected that as a filter. I've even considered deprecating/removing that option. Some metadata just seems like it wasn't ever intended to be pulled from an org and externalized given how poorly it's supported by the metadata API. I'm glad that switching to Selected resolved this for you!

[Roman Prytkov]

Scott, BTW, Selected option will be more useful if you will add Select/Deselect All above the whole list. See attached screenshot here.

Regards, Roman

[Scott Wells]

Roman, you can use Ctrl+A followed by Space to toggle all on or off in any of the checkbox trees.

[Roman Prytkov]

Scott,

This is great!! Thank you!

[Scott Wells]

Issue tracker grooming. If this is still an issue, please feel free to reopen, ideally with a concrete reproduction scenario.