allMetadataTypes.txt

80/152 Metdatatypes mapped
Metadata Type	            Allows Wildcard (*)?	Description

AccountSettings                     Not Applicable	Represents an organization’s account settings for account teams, account owner report, and the View Hierarchy link.
ActivitiesSettings                  Not Applicable	Represents an organization’s activity settings, and its user interface settings for the calendar.
AddressSettings                     Not Applicable	Represents the configuration of country and state picklists.
BusinessHoursSettings               Not Applicable	Represents the metadata used to manage settings for business hours and holidays in entitlements, entitlement templates, campaigns, and cases.
CaseSettings                        Not Applicable	Represents an organization’s case settings, such as the default case owner, which case-related features are enabled, and which email templates are used for various case activities.
ChatterAnswersSettings              Not Applicable	Represents the metadata used to manage settings for Chatter Answers.
CompanySettings                     Not Applicable	Represents global settings that affect multiple features in your organization.
ContractSettings                    Not Applicable	Represents contract settings.
EntitlementSettings                 Not Applicable	Represents an organization’s entitlement settings.
ForecastingSettings                 Not Applicable	Represents the Collaborative Forecasts settings options.
IdeasSettings                       Not Applicable	Represents the metadata used to manage settings for Ideas.
KnowledgeSettings                   Not Applicable	Represents the metadata used to manage settings for Salesforce Knowledge.
MobileSettings                      Not Applicable	Represents an organization’s mobile settings.
SecuritySettings                    Not Applicable	Represents an organization’s security settings. Security settings define trusted IP ranges for network access, password and login requirements, and session expiration and security settings.
LiveAgentSettings                   Not Applicable	Represents an organization’s Live Agent settings, such as whether or not Live Agent is enabled.
NameSettings                        Not Applicable	Enables or disables middle name and suffix attributes for the following person objects: Contact, Lead, Person Account, and User.
OpportunitySettings                 Not Applicable	Represents organization preferences for features such as automatic opportunity updates and similar-opportunity filters.
OrderSettings                       Not Applicable	Represents order settings.
OrgPreferenceSettings               Not Applicable	Represents the unique org preference settings in a Salesforce org.
PathAssistantSettings               Not Applicable	Represents the Sales Path preference setting.
ProductSettings                     Not Applicable	Represents organization preferences for quantity schedules, revenue schedules, and active flag interaction with prices.
QuoteSettings                       Not Applicable	Enables or disables Quotes, which show proposed prices for products and services.
ActionLinkGroupTemplate             Yes	            Represents the action link group template. Action link templates let you reuse action link definitions and package and distribute action links. An action link is a button on a feed element. Clicking on an action link can take a user to another Web page, initiate a file download, or invoke an API call to an external server or Salesforce. Use action links to integrate Salesforce and third-party services into the feed. Every action link belongs to an action link group and action links within the group are mutually exclusive.
ActionOverride                      No	            Represents an action override on a standard or custom object. Use it to create, update, edit, or delete action overrides.
AnalyticSnapshot                    No	            Represents a reporting snapshot. A reporting snapshot lets you report on historical data. Authorized users can save tabular or summary report results to fields on a custom object, then map those fields to corresponding fields on a target object. They can then schedule when to run the report to load the custom object's fields with the report's data. Reporting snapshots enable you to work with report data similarly to how you work with other records in Salesforce.
ApexClass                           Yes	            Represents an Apex class. An Apex class is a template or blueprint from which Apex objects are created. Classes consist of other classes, user-defined methods, variables, exception types, and static initialization code.
ApexComponent                       Yes	            Represents a Visualforce component.
ApexPage                            Yes	            Represents a Visualforce page.
ApexTrigger                         Yes	            Represents an Apex trigger. A trigger is Apex code that executes before or after specific data manipulation language (DML) events occur, such as before object records are inserted into the database, or after records have been deleted.
AppMenu                     	    Yes	            Represents the Force.com app menu or the Salesforce1 navigation menu.
ApprovalProcess                     Yes             Represents the metadata associated with an approval process. An approval process automates how records are approved in Salesforce. An approval process specifies each step of approval, including who to request approval from and what to do at each point of the process. Use the wildcard (*) symbol to retrieve all approval processes for all objects. You can’t use it to retrieve a subset of approval processes; syntax such as Lead.* is not supported.
ArticleType                         Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with an article type.
AssignmentRules                     Yes	            Represents assignment rules that allow you to automatically route cases to the appropriate users or queues.
AuthProvider                        Yes	            Represents an authentication provider (or auth provider) in your organization. An auth provider enables users to log in to your Salesforce organization using their login credentials from an external service provider such as Facebook© or Janrain©.
AuraDefinitionBundle                Yes	            Represents a Lightning definition bundle. A bundle contains a Lightning definition and all its related resources. The definition can be a component, application, event, interface, or a tokens collection.
AutoResponseRules                   Yes	            Represents an auto-response rule that sets conditions for sending automatic email responses to lead or case submissions based on the attributes of the submitted record.
BaseSharingRule  (deprecated)       Yes	            Represents the base container for criteria-based and owner-based sharing rules.
BusinessProcess                     See desc    	The BusinessProcess metadata type enables you to display different picklist values for users based on their profile. Supports wildcard (*) only if a RecordType is specified.
CallCenter                          Yes	            Represents the Call Center definition used to integrate Salesforce with a third-party computer-telephony integration (CTI) system.
Certificate                         Yes	            Represents a certificate used for digital signatures which verify that requests are coming from your org. Certificates are used for either authenticated single sign-on with an external website, or when using your org as an identity provider.
CleanDataService                    Yes	            Represents a data service that adds and updates data in standard objects.
Dashboard                           No	            Represents a dashboard. Dashboards are visual representations of data that allow you to see key metrics and performance at a glance.
Community                           Yes	            Represents a zone that contains Ideas or Chatter Answers objects. Zones are shared by the Ideas, Answers, and Chatter Answers features, allowing you to view and create zones from those locations.

CommunityTemplateDefinition         Yes	            Represents the definition of a community template.
CommunityThemeDefinition            Yes	            Represents the definition of a community theme.
CompactLayout                       Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a compact layout.
ConnectedApp                        Yes	            Represents a connected app configuration. A connected app integrates an application with Salesforce using APIs. Connected apps use standard SAML and OAuth protocols to authenticate, provide single sign-on, and provide tokens for use with Salesforce APIs. In addition to standard OAuth capabilities, connected apps allow Salesforce admins to set various security policies and have explicit control over who can use the corresponding apps.
ContentAsset                        Yes	            Represents the metadata for creating an asset file.
CorsWhitelistOrigin                 Yes	            Represents an origin in the CORS whitelist.
CriteriaBasedSharingRule            Yes	            Represents a criteria-based sharing rule. CriteriaBasedSharingRule enables you to share records based on specific criteria. It contains metadata for the following criteria-based sharing rules: Accounts, Campaigns, Cases, Contacts, Custom Objects, Leads, and Opportunities.
CustomApplication                   Yes	            CustomApplication represents a custom or standard application. In API version 29.0 and earlier, CustomApplication represents only a custom application. An application is a list of tab references, with a description and a logo.
CustomApplicationComponent          Yes	            Represents a custom console component (Visualforce page) assigned to a CustomApplication that is marked as a Salesforce console. Custom console components extend the capabilities of Salesforce console apps.
CustomFeedFilter                    Yes	            Represents a custom feed filter that limits the feed view to feeds from the Cases object. The custom feed filter shows only feed items that satisfy the criteria specified in the CustomFeedFilter definition.
CustomField                         No	            Represents the metadata associated with a field. Use this metadata type to create, update, or delete custom field definitions on standard, custom, and external objects or standard field definitions on standard objects.
CustomLabel                         No	            Represents a custom label that can be localized and used in different languages, countries, and currencies. Use this type instead of CustomLabels if you want to retrieve custom labels by name.
CustomMetadata                      Yes	            Represents a record of a custom metadata type.
CustomLabels                        Yes	            This metadata type allows you to create custom labels that can be localized for use in different languages, countries, and currencies.
CustomObject                        See Desc    	Represents a custom object that stores data unique to your organization or an external object that maps to data stored outside Salesforce. You can also use this metadata type to work with customizations of standard objects, such as Accounts. It contains the following types: Action Overrides, Business Processes, Custom Fields, Field Sets, List Views, Named Filters (Lookup Filters), Picklists (including Dependent Picklists), Record Types, Search Layouts, Sharing Reasons, Sharing Recalculations, Validation Rules, Weblinks, and Field Types. Supports wildcard (*) for Field Sets and Record Types, but not for other components.
CustomObjectTranslation             Yes	            This metadata type allows you to translate custom objects for a variety of languages.
CustomPageWebLink                   Yes	            Represents a custom link defined in a home page component.
CustomPermission                    Yes	            Represents a permission that grants access to a custom feature.
CustomSite                          Yes	            Represents a Force.com site. Force.com Sites enables you to create public websites and applications that are directly integrated with your Salesforce organization—without requiring users to log in with a username and password.
CustomTab                           Yes	            Represents a custom tab. Custom tabs let you display custom object data or other web content in Salesforce. When you add a custom tab to an app in Salesforce Classic, it displays as a tab. When you add a custom tab to an app in Lightning Experience, it displays as an item in the app’s navigation bar. When a tab displays a custom object, the tab name is the same as the custom object name; for page, s-control, or URL tabs, the name is arbitrary.
DataCategoryGroup                   Yes	            Represents a data category group.
DelegateGroup                       Yes	            Represents a group of users who have the same administrative privileges. These groups are different from public groups used for sharing.
Document                            No	            Represents a Document. All documents must be in a document folder, for example sampleFolder/TestDocument.
DuplicateRule                       Yes	            Represents a rule that specifies how duplicate records in an object are detected.
EmailTemplate                       No	            Represents an email template.
EntitlementProcess                  Yes	            Represents the settings for an entitlement process.
EntitlementTemplate                 Yes	            Represents an entitlement template. Entitlement templates are predefined terms of customer support that you can quickly add to products. For example, you can create entitlement templates for Web or phone support so that users can easily add entitlements to products offered to customers.
EventDelivery                       Yes	            Reserved for future use.
EventSubscription                   Yes	            Reserved for future use.
ExternalDataSource                  Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with an external data source. Create external data sources to manage connection details for integration with data and content that are stored outside your Salesforce org.
FieldSet                            Yes	            Represents a field set. A field set is a grouping of fields. For example, you could have a field set that contains fields describing a user's first name, middle name, last name, and business title.
FlexiPage                           Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a Lightning Page. A Lightning Page represents a customizable screen containing Lightning components.
Flow                                Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a flow. With Flow, you can create an application that navigates users through a series of screens to query and update records in the database. You can also execute logic and provide branching capability based on user input to build dynamic applications.
FlowDefinition                      Yes	            Represents the flow definition’s description and active flow version number.
Folder                              No	            Represents a folder. A folder can contain documents, email templates, reports, or dashboards. You must specify the folder type (Document, EmailTemplate, Report, or Dashboard) to retrieve or deploy.
FolderShare                         No	            Represents the settings for enhanced analytics folder sharing. Users can control access to reports or dashboards by giving others Viewer, Editor or Manager access to the folder that contains the report or dashboard.
GlobalValueSet                      Yes	            Represents the metadata for a global picklist value set, which is the set of shared values that custom picklist fields can use. A global value set isn't a field itself. (In contrast, the custom picklist fields that are based on a global picklist are of type ValueSet.)
GlobalValueSetTranslation           Yes	            Contains details for a global value set translation. Global value sets are lists of values that can be shared by multiple custom picklist fields, optionally across objects.
GlobalPicklistValue                 No	            Represents the definition of a value used in a global picklist. Custom picklist fields can inherit the picklist value set from a global picklist. This type extends the Metadata metadata type and inherits its fullName field.
Group                               Yes	            Represents a set of public groups, which can have users, roles, and other groups.
HomePageComponent                   Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a home page component. You can customize the Home tab to include components such as sidebar links, a company logo, a dashboard snapshot, or custom components that you create.
HomePageLayout                      Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a home page layout. You can customize home page layouts and assign the layouts to users based on their user profile.
InstalledPackage                    Yes	            Represents a package to be installed or uninstalled. Deploying a newer version of a currently installed package upgrades the package.
KeywordList                         Yes	            Represents a list of keywords used in community moderation. This keyword list is a type of moderation criteria that defines offensive language or inappropriate content that you don’t want in your community.
Layout                              Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a page layout.
Letterhead                          No	            Represents formatting options for the letterhead in an email template. Letterheads define the look and feel of your HTML email templates. Your HTML email templates can inherit the logo, color, and text settings from a letterhead.
ListView                            No	            ListView allows you to see a filtered list of records, such as contacts, accounts, or custom objects.
LiveChatAgentConfig                 Yes	            Represents the configuration of an organization’s Live Agent deployment, such as how many chats can be assigned to an agent and whether or not chat sounds are enabled.
LiveChatButton                      Yes	            Represents a Live Agent deployment’s settings for the button that customers click to chat with an agent and the chat window, such as the label that appears on the button and the pre-chat form that appears before a live chat begins.
LiveChatDeployment                  Yes	            Represents the configuration settings for a specific Live Agent deployment, such as the branding image for the deployment and whether or not chat transcripts are automatically saved.
LiveChatSensitiveDataRule           Yes	            Represents a rule for masking or deleting data of a specified pattern. Written as a regular expression (regex). This object is available in API version 35.0 and later.
ManagedTopics                       Yes	            Represents navigational and featured topics managed in a community.
MatchingRule                        Yes	            Represents a matching rule that is used to identify duplicate records.
Metadata                            No	            This is the base class for all metadata types. You cannot edit this object. A component is an instance of a metadata type.
MetadataWithContent                 No	            This is the base type for all metadata types that contain content, such as documents or email templates.
MilestoneType                       Yes	            Represents the name and description of a milestone, which you can use in an entitlement process to track important steps in cases.
ModerationRule                      Yes	            Represents a rule used in your community to moderate member-generated content.Each rule specifies the member-generated content the rule applies to, the criteria to enforce the rule on, and the moderation action to take. Moderation rules help protect your community from spammers, bots, and offensive or inappropriate content.
NamedCredential                     Yes	            Represents a named credential, which specifies the URL of a callout endpoint and its required authentication parameters in one definition. A named credential can be specified as an endpoint to simplify the setup of authenticated callouts.
NamedFilter                         No	            This component has been removed as of API version 30.0 and is only provided for backward compatibility. The metadata associated with a lookup filter is now represented by the lookupFilter field in the CustomField component. Represents the metadata associated with a lookup filter. Use this metadata type to create, update, or delete lookup filter definitions.
Network                             Yes	            Represents a community. Communities are branded spaces for your employees, customers, and partners to connect. You can customize and create communities to meet your business needs, then transition seamlessly between them. Use the Network component for Salesforce Communities. If you want to create zones that contain Chatter Answers and Ideas, use the Community (Zone) component.
OwnerSharingRule                    Yes	            Represents an ownership-based sharing rule. OwnerSharingRule enables you to share records owned by a set of users with another set, using rules that specify the access level of the target user group. It contains metadata for the following specific owner-sharing rules: Accounts, Campaigns, Cases, Contacts, Custom Objects, Leads, Account Territory and Opportunities.
Package                             No	            Specifies which metadata components to retrieve as part of a retrieve() call or defines a package of components.
PathAssistant                       Yes	            Represents Sales Path records for Opportunity.
PermissionSet                       Yes	            Represents a set of permissions that's used to grant additional access to one or more users without changing their profile or reassigning profiles. You can use permission sets to grant access, but not to deny access.
Picklist                            (Including Dependent Picklist)	No	Deprecated. Represents a picklist (or dependent picklist) definition for a custom field in a custom object or a custom or standard field in a standard object, such as an account.
PlatformCachePartition              Yes	            Represents a partition in the Platform Cache.
Portal                              Yes	            The Portal metadata type represents a partner portal or Customer Portal.
PostTemplate                        Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with an approval post template for Approvals in Chatter. With approval post templates, you can customize the information included in approval request posts that appear in Chatter feeds.
Profile                             Yes	            Represents a user profile. A profile defines a user’s permission to perform different functions within Salesforce.
Queue                               Yes	            Represents a holding area for items before they are processed.
QuickAction                         Yes	            Represents a specified create or update quick action for an object that then becomes available in the Chatter publisher. For example, you can create an action that, on the detail page of an account, allows a user to create a contact related to that account from the Chatter feed on that page. QuickAction can be created on objects that allow custom fields.
RecordType                          No	            Represents the metadata associated with a record type. Record types let you offer different business processes, picklist values, and page layouts to different users.
RemoteSiteSetting                   Not Applicable	Represents a remote site setting. Before any Visualforce page, Apex callout, or JavaScript code using XmlHttpRequest in an s-control or custom button can call an external site, that site must be registered in the Remote Site Settings page, or the call fails.
Report                              No	            Represents a custom report.
ReportType                          Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a custom report type. Custom report types allow you to build a framework from which users can create and customize reports.
Role                                Yes	            Represents a role in your organization.
SamlSsoConfig                       Yes	            Represents a SAML Single Sign-On configuration.
Scontrol                            Yes	Deprecated. Represents an Scontrol component, corresponding to an s-control in the Salesforce user interface.
SearchLayouts                       No	            Represents the metadata associated with the Search Layouts for an object. You can customize which fields to display for users in search results, search filter fields, lookup dialogs, and recent record lists on tab home pages.
SearchSettings                      No	            Represents an org's search settings.
SharingBaseRule                     No	            Represents sharing rule settings such as access level and to whom access is granted.
SharingReason                       No	            Represents an Apex sharing reason, which is used to indicate why sharing was implemented for a custom object.
SharingRecalculation                No	            Represents Apex classes that recalculate the Apex managed sharing for a specific custom object.
SharingRules                        Yes	            Represents the base container for sharing rules, which can be criteria-based, ownership-based, or territory-based. SharingRules enables you to share records with a set of users, using rules that specify the access level for the target user group.
SharingSet                          Yes	            Represents a sharing set. A sharing set defines an access mapping that grants portal or community users access to objects that are associated with their accounts or contacts.
SiteDotCom                          Yes	            Represents a site for deployment. It extends the MetadataWithContent type and inherits its fullName and content fields.
Skill                               Yes	            Represents the settings for a skill used for field service or to route chats to agents in Live Agent, such as the name of the skill and which agents the skills are assigned to.
StandardValueSet                    No	            Represents the set of values in a standard picklist field. This type extends the Metadata metadata type and inherits its fullName field.
StandardValueSetTranslation         Yes	            Contains details for a standard picklist translation. It returns a translated standard value set.
StaticResource                      Yes	            Represents a static resource file, often a code library in a ZIP file.
SynonymDictionary                   Yes	            Represents a set of synonym groups, which are groups of words or phrases that are treated as equivalent in users’ searches. You can define synonym groups to optimize search results for acronyms, variations of product names, and other terminology unique to your organization.
Territory                           Yes	            Represents a territory in your organization.
Territory2                          Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a sales territory in Territory Management 2.0.
Territory2Model                     Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a territory model in Territory Management 2.0.
Territory2Rule                      Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a territory assignment rule associated with an object, such as Account, in Territory Management 2.0.
Territory2Settings                  No	            Represents the metadata for the default settings for Territory Management 2.0 users to access and modify records associated with sales territories. The standard record access settings apply to accounts and opportunities. If your Salesforce org uses Private default internal access for contacts or cases, you can also set access for those records.
Territory2Type                      Yes	            Represents the metadata for a category of territories in Territory Management 2.0. Every Territory2 must have a Territory2Type.
TransactionSecurityPolicy           Yes	            Represents a transaction security policy definition.
Translations                        Yes	            This metadata type allows you to work with translations for various supported languages.
ValidationRule                      No	            Represents a validation rule, which is used to verify that the data a user enters in a record is valid and can be saved. A validation rule contains a formula or expression that evaluates the data in one or more fields and returns a value of true or false. Validation rules also include an error message that your client application can display to the user when the rule returns a value of true due to invalid data.
WaveApplication                     Yes	            Represents the Wave Analytics application.
WaveDashboard                       Yes	            Represents the WaveDashboard object in the Wave Analytics application.
WaveDataflow                        Yes	            Represents the WaveDataflow object in the Wave Analytics application.
WaveDataset                         Yes	            Represents the WaveDataset object in the Wave Analytics application.
WaveLens                            Yes	            Represents the WaveLens object in the Wave Analytics application.
WaveTemplateBundle                  Yes	            Represents a Wave Analytics template bundle, which can be used to create Wave apps. A bundle contains a Wave template definition and all its related resources.
WebLink                             No	            Represents a custom button or link defined in a custom object.
Workflow                            Yes	            Represents the metadata associated with a workflow rule. A workflow rule sets workflow actions into motion when its designated conditions are met. You can configure workflow actions to execute immediately when a record meets the conditions in your workflow rule, or set time triggers that execute the workflow actions on a specific day