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DXB-CLI

A cli plugin for the Salesforce CLI built by David Browaeys containing a lot of helpful commands.

Install DXB-CLI

To get started, you can install it by using salesforce command, open your terminal and type:

sf plugins install dxb@latest

Post Install

Some of the commands require some configuration. So in order to fully utilize DXB-CLI, you must run the following command. This will update sfdx-project.json and create a JSON file that contains some DXB-CLI specific configuration information.

sf dxb install

Options

defaultdurationdays: override default scratch org duration to 30
packages: list of managed package id's for scratch org creation
userPermissionsKnowledgeUser : mark scratch org user as Knowledge User
deferPermissionSet : path of defer sharing rule permission set metadata to deploy, i.e.: force-app/main/default/permissionsets/Manage_Defer_Sharing_Permissions.permissionset-meta.xml
deferSharingUser : name of the defer sharing rule permission set
manual_config_required: dxb scratch org creation in the event process required a manual pre deployment
manual_config_start_url: override default url when opening scratch org
manual_steps: this attribute can be used to document manual pre deployment steps when using dxb org creation command. Only work along with manual_config_start_url.
apextemplatepath: path to apex class template creation,i.e.: templates/classes
orgdefault_config: this attribute allows to define a set of rules to override certain metadata attributes specific to scratch org creation that might not be supported, i.e. field update to assign record to specific user.
- folder : name of the metadata folder to look at
- rules : set of rules for that metadata type
  - regex : regex to evaluate,i.e.: .+
  - replaceby : value to replace metadata attribute found by, use {{mergevalue}} in order to dynamically populate with the value define by mergefield
  - mergefield : name of the attribute to populate, only support username at this stage from scratch org username, but this could be extended with others in the future.

Sample Definition Output

{
  "packageDirectories": [
    {
      "path": "force-app",
      "default": true
    }
  ],
  "namespace": "",
  "sfdcLoginUrl": "https://test.salesforce.com",
  "sourceApiVersion": "61.0",
  "plugins": {
    "dxb": {
      "defaultdurationdays": "30",
      "packages": [],
      "pre_legacy_packages": [],
      "userPermissionsKnowledgeUser": true,
      "deferPermissionSet": "force-app/main/default/permissionsets/Manage_Defer_Sharing_Permissions.permissionset-meta.xml",
      "deferSharingUser": "Manage_Defer_Sharing_Permissions",
      "disableFeedTrackingHistory": [],
      "manual_config_required": false,
      "manual_config_start_url": "/ltng/switcher?destination=classic&referrer=%2Flightning%2Fsetup%2FSetupOneHome%2Fhome",
      "manual_steps": ["- Sample: Chatter Settings > Enable Unlisted Groups"],
      "data_plan_path": "./data/sample/data-plan.json",
      "apextemplatepath": null,
      "orgdefault_config": [
        {
          "folder": "workflow",
          "rules": [
            {
              "regex": "<lookupValue>.+</lookupValue>",
              "replaceby": "<lookupValue>{{mergevalue}}</lookupValue>",
              "mergefield": "username"
            },
            {
              "regex": "<senderType>.+</senderType>",
              "replaceby": "<senderType>CurrentUser</senderType>"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "folder": "emailservices",
          "rules": [
            {
              "regex": "<runAsUser>.+</runAsUser>",
              "replaceby": "<runAsUser>{{mergevalue}}</runAsUser>",
              "mergefield": "username"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "folder": "autoResponseRules",
          "rules": [
            {
              "regex": "<senderEmail>.+</senderEmail>",
              "replaceby": "<senderEmail>{{mergevalue}}</senderEmail>",
              "mergefield": "username"
            },
            {
              "regex": "<senderEmail>.+</senderEmail>",
              "replaceby": "<senderEmail>{{mergevalue}}</senderEmail>",
              "mergefield": "username"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "folder": "dashboards",
          "rules": [
            {
              "regex": "<dashboardType>LoggedInUser</dashboardType>",
              "replaceby": "<dashboardType>SpecifiedUser</dashboardType>"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "folder": "approvalProcesses",
          "rules": [
            {
              "regex": "<name>.+</name><!--username-->",
              "replaceby": "<name>{{mergevalue}}</name>",
              "mergefield": "username"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Topics

  sf dxb apex          A set of commands to manipulate apex.
  sf dxb community     Publish community(network) using connect api.
  sf dxb data          A set of commands that allows to manipulate and optimize data.
  sf dxb mdapi         A set of commands that extends dx mdapi topic.
  sf dxb object        A set of commands in regards to salesforce objects.
  sf dxb org           A set of commands for scratch org and sandbox
  sf dxb permission    Find out why a user has access to a object or field.
  sf dxb profile       A set of commands that allow to manipuilate and faciliate salesforce profiles.
  sf dxb static        Create static resource locally
  sf dxb user          Set defaut username and org wide email in metadata such as workflow based on target scratch org

Create DXB Scratch Org

Creating a scratch can be very tedious and might require a lot of steps especially if you have managed packages to install. The purpose of this command is to remove those long tasks into a single one. In order to use the command you must configure dxb plugin within your sfdx-project.json file.

defaultdurationdays: override default duration to n days
packages: list of managed package id
manual_config_required: if true, prompt user to execute manual steps in scratch org.
manual_config_start_url: start URL when open scratch org for manual pre config
manual_steps : list manual config to perform before to continue
data_plan_path: data plan path if you desire to include test data
orgdefault_config: set default username and/or org wide email in metadata such as workflow based on target scratch org
```
sf dxb org create -o orgname -s -p
```

Profile

In the early days of DX and up to now, the team had a lot of struggle dealing with profile and permission sets as many things keep getting reorder alphabetically when new objects/fields/app/etc get created. Also due to the size of those XML files it make it hard for a lead developer to make proper effective code review.

So to remove this pain, I thought to decompose profiles in the same way salesforce did for object source folders. The command creates a folder for each profile. Each profile folder will contain the definition of the profile and system permissions, then one folder for each object that will contain object crud, fls accessibility, record type assignments etc.

There is different way of working with this, but an example would be the following. As a developer you would source:pull as per normal from your scratch org then you would run the command to decompose profile into tiny .json files. You would then commit all your .json files to your repo, and create your pull request to lead developer. As a lead developer it make easier to perform code review as each file is a single file.

Of course from this point, deployment doesn't understand this format, so you would have your deployment tool that would regroup all the .json files into our original metadata file by running the reverse command. In this scenario a few things to consider is you will need to respectively gitignore the profile.xml files and you would need to forceignore the profile .json files. Also as you can guess it's a lot of files. I am planning to extend the command in a way only the files that have changed will be include during the recomposition.

Another way of working is developers simply use the commands locally and decompose/recompose before to commit but you lose the advantage of single file during pull request review I think.

Convert & Build a single profile

sf dxb profile build -p Admin -d force-app/main/default/profiles
sf dxb profile convert -p Admin -d src/profiles

Convert & Build all profile

sf dxb profile build -d src/profiles
sf dxb profile convert -d src/profiles

User Access Check

Many times when you use a lot of permission sets you might struggle to find why a user has access to an object or a field. So I created a command where you pass the username, object name and/or field name and it will tell you in what profiles or permissions sets it's referenced.

sf dxb user access why -s Product2
sf dxb user access why -s Product2 -f External_ID__c
sf dxb user access why -s Product2 -f External_ID__c -i [email protected]

Clean your permission sets

With regards to permission sets, if you want to remove access of a specific object, fields, ... you simply need to remove the whole tags from the permissiom, you do not need to set the access to false. In many organisation, I see people doing prod sync, which increase the size of the perm set metadata files, because salesforce api will fetch everything that is included in the mdapi:retrieve. This doesn't seem to be the case for profiles though, you must explicitly mark something as false.

The idea of this command is to delete those unnecessary false access from files and keep your permission set clean.

sf dxb permissionset clean -f force-app/main/default/permissionsets/Social_Customer_Service_Permission_Set.permissionset-meta.xml

Data Transfer (Export & Import)

Data transfer allows you to setup and automate transfer of data within your pipeline. This is very handy for sync reference data between your environment such as data driven solution (custom settings, reference objects, ...). You can either use "export and import" in the event you have a dedicated env as a source of truth for all your reference data. Or you can just use the import if you manage your export locally and push all your data into your repository. This command is using jsforce bulk api in order to handle large volume, and store the data in CSV file format which means it can go way beyond 2000 records per objects which is one of the limitation of the sfdx data plan and one of the reason this was built.

Important note, you will need 2 main things :

Make sure all objects use a unique external id fields and that field is always populated. This will require a trigger or flow on all objects. If you don't have a meaningful external id, you can set it by concatenating orgId_recordId.
Create a data definition file as per below example.

Setup

You will need to create a data definition .json file (data-def.json) anywhere in your DX project, usually in your data folder. For the export and import data folder, I usually create one folder for each target environment as you might have different set of data for different type of environment (DEV vs QA vs UAT vs SIT). With that being said, you might have more than one data definition file (data-def-qa.json, data-def-sit.json).

active : only run the export/import if active = true
objectName : api name of the standard/custom object
filename: name of the CSV file to export or import
fields: list of api name fields (comma separated). You can use cross reference field in order to upsert child to parent relationship. For Recordtype Id, simply use DeveloperName of your object record type and the command will fetch automatically the id of the record type in your target env.
where: SOQL where clause to filter out certain records

{
  "objects": [
    {
      "active": true,
      "objectName": "Parent_Object__c",
      "filename": "ABC_Parent_Objects.csv",
      "externalField": "External_ID__c",
      "fields": "Name,RecordType.DeveloperName,Status__c,External_ID__c",
      "where": "Status__c = 'Active'"
    },
    {
      "active": true,
      "objectName": "Child_Object__c",
      "filename": "ABC_Child_Objects.csv",
      "externalField": "External_ID__c",
      "fields": "Name,External_ID__c,Action__c,Completed__c,Parent_Object__r.External_ID__c",
      "where": ""
    }
  ]
}

Export

 sf dxb data export -f data/data-def.json -d data/dev -o <sourceEnv>

Import

 sf dxb data import -f data/data-def.json -d data/dev -o <targetEnv>

Azure Pipeline

How does it looks like in your yaml ? Reference data are usually store in your repo. But you could also decide to transfer from one dedicated env to another.

- script: |
    sf dxb data export -f data/data-def.json -d data/dev -o <sourceEnv>
    sf dxb data import -f data/data-def.json -d data/dev -o <targetEnv>
  condition: succeeded()
  displayName: 'DataLoad to targetEnv'

Delta Deployment

The command generates a delta package based on changes in metadata files of a Salesforce project using git diff. The program uses the Salesforce CLI library and other third-party libraries such as source-deploy-retrieve.

The command accepts several options such as the type of changes to consider (commitid, tags, branch), the name of the branch, tag or commit ID, and the path of the output package. The command generates a delta package.xml that contains only the changed metadata files.

It first reads the project configuration to determine the package directories and the Salesforce API version. Then, it executes a git diff command to get the changed files and their operation (added, modified, removed, or updated) based on the selected options. Then it filters the changed files based on the provided filter, AMRU, which stands for Added, Modified, Removed, and Updated.

For each changed metadata file, the command determines its metadata type and adds it to the package.xml file. If the granularmode option is specified, it includes only the changed components of the custom objects, and if not, it includes the whole custom object.

Finally, the program writes the generated package.xml file to the output directory.

 sf dxb source delta -m tags -k mytag
 sf dxb source delta -m branch -k origin/master
 sf dxb source delta -m commitid -k 123456

The output of this command will give you the parameters in order to use the sf project deploy start command and perform the actual deployment.

-d force-app/main/default/classes/EmailMessageService.cls,force-app/main/default/classes/EmailMessageService.cls-meta.xml -t "EmailMessageServiceTest"

You can also get json output by adding --json into the command, it will give you something like the following :

{
  "status": 0,
  "result": {
    "deltaMeta": [
      "force-app/main/default/classes/EmailMessageService.cls",
      "force-app/main/default/classes/EmailMessageService.cls-meta.xml"
    ],
    "testClasses": ["EmailMessageServiceTest"]
  }
}

The below will show you a couple of examples on how to use this in your pipelines, assuming you have git checkout develop branch for example.

Azure Pipelines :

- script: |
    delta=$(sf dxb source delta -m branch -k origin/master)
    testClass=$(sf dxb source fetchtest -p "$delta")
    sf project deploy start -d "$delta" -o targetEnv -l RunSpecifiedTests $testClass
  condition: succeeded()
  displayName: 'Deploy to targetEnv'

Groovy pipeline

def jsonSlurper = new JsonSlurper();
bat " sf dxb source delta -m branch -k origin/master --json -r > delta.json";
stdout = readFile("delta.json").trim();
def delta = jsonSlurper.parseText(stdout);
def options = "";
if (delta.testClasses != null && delta.testClasses.isEmpty() == false){
    options = "-l RunSpecifiedTest -t "+ delta.testClasses.join(',');
}
def cmd = " sf project deploy start -d "+delta.deltaMeta.join(',')+" -o prod -w 600 "+options;
bat cmd;

The challenge of this option is that if you delta is big, you might encounter long arguments list exception from your shell. Lately I've updated the delta to generate a proper package.xml.

sf dxb source delta -m branch -k origin/master -p delta_manifest

Sample output, delta_manifest/package.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<Package xmlns='http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata'>
    <version>61.0</version>
    <types>
        <members>MyClass</members>
        <members>MyTestClass</members>
        <name>ApexClass</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>Account</members>
        <members>Invoice__c</members>
        <name>CustomObject</name>
    </types>
</Package>

You can now reference the generated xml in your sf deploy command

 sf project deploy start -x delta_manifest/package.xml -o targetenv -g

or using the mdapi with src conversion and add your destructive change manifest into it.

sf project convert source -x delta_manifest/package.xml --output-dir mdapioutput
cp destructiveChanges/destructiveChanges.xml mdapioutput/
sf project deploy start -o targetenv -l RunLocalTests -w 600 --metadata-dir mdapioutput -g

The fetch test command can also be adapted to read from the generated manifest.

sf dxb source fetchtest -x delta_manifest/package.xml > testClasses

Sample Output

-t "MyTestClass"

I've been using this technique in a few projects now and it has been quite good. Some other consideration is that your pipeline must be adapted if your delta doesn't contain metadata that depend on test classes in which case I check if my testClasses file contains something, if no then update TestLevel to NoTestRun.

if [[ "$TESTLEVEL" == "RunSpecifiedTests" ]]
then
  TESTCLASSES=$(<testClasses)
  if [ -s "testClasses" ]
  then
    echo "-    Test Classes: $TESTCLASSES"
  else
    TESTLEVEL="NoTestRun"
  fi
fi

Schema Doc Gen

sf dxb schema doc generate -c config/dxb-abc-docgen.json
sf dxb schema doc generate -c config/dxb-abc-docgen.json -x manifest/abc-package.xml

This command generates as-build technical design pdf document by pulling metadata such as standard object, custom objects, apex classes, triggers etc directly from an org.

To start using this command, run sf dxb install or copy json definition file from github: https://github.com/davidbrowaeys/DXB/blob/master/src/lib/documentinfo.json

List of standard objects is quite big so we only limit to what you need be defining metadata.stdobjects. For custom objects, currently it will simply pull everything (except managed packages metadata).

The html template & stylesheet are included in DXB but you copy and modify your own if required: https://github.com/davidbrowaeys/DXB/blob/master/src/lib/schema-template.html https://github.com/davidbrowaeys/DXB/blob/master/src/lib/bootstrap.min.css

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