mschmidtkorth / msk-sfdx-toolbox

Visual Studio Code extension for SFDX. Simplifies development with Salesforce DX.

MSK sfdx Toolbox

Simplifies development with Salesforce DX.

Features

• >MSK: Open Current File In Org Show the currently opened XML file in your Salesforce org via your browser (e.g. Account-Account Layout.layout-meta.xml opens the Page Layout Editor). This allows you to quickly confirm how the XML file is represented in the Salesforce org.
• >MSK: Open Org Open any Scratch Org, Sandbox or Dev Hub in the browser or display its expiration date. This allows you to quickly switch between all authorized orgs and see to which Dev Hub they are related to.
• >MSK: Delete Scratch Org Delete any Scratch Org.
• >MSK: Compare Permissions Intelligently compare Permission Sets or Profiles between two branches and generate a merge file. This allows you to check for conflicts and provide a merged file before pushing your changes.
• >MSK: Validate Changes Validate your local changes against any Scratch Org or Sandbox. This allows you to check your changes before pushing them to remote.
• >MSK: Open Help for Metadata Type Open the Metadata API online help for the currently opened file. This helps you to manually edit Metadata .xml files.

Demonstration

Opening a Metadata File in Salesforce

Comparing Permission Sets & Profiles

Validating Changes Against Any Org

Setup

1. Open Command Palette > Preferences: Open Settings (UI)
2. Search for "MSK"
3. Configure Default Working Directory and (optional) Default Compare Script Directory
4. Execute any command via Command Palette > MSK
5. >MSK: Open Current File In Org and >MSK: Compare Permissions can also be executed via the right-click context menu for any open file, directly from the editors action buttons or from the file explorer.

Comparing Permissions

Permission files (Profiles or Permission Sets) can be compared against their current version on any other branch to highlight conflicts.

1. Check out your other branch - e.g. master - (to compare changes against) and ensure it is up-to-date (as you want to compare against the most recent version).
2. Check out your feature/development branch (to compare changes from).
3. Use >MSK: Compare Permissions to select the Profile or Permission Set and your branch to compare against.
4. Receive a success message if merging concluded without conflicts or check the conflict file.
5. Note: Comparison is not done on a line-by-line basis as e.g. performed by Git, but by comparing the actual metadata and its content. Git-like comparison results in lots of false-positives and difficult to track changes.

Requirements

• All Commands Install the Salesforce CLI.

Other Notes

Logo taken from Salesforce.