As a Salesforce developer or administrator, you might be familiar with the challenge of keeping track of your organization's schema. With dozens or even hundreds of custom objects, fields, and relationships to manage, it can be difficult to keep everything organized and up-to-date. That's where Schema Lister, a tool available as part of the Salesforce Cloud Toolkit, comes in.
Schema Lister is a command-line tool that allows you to easily generate a report of your organization's schema in a variety of formats, including CSV, JSON, and HTML. The report includes information on all custom objects, fields, and relationships, as well as standard objects that have been customized in some way.
Getting Started with Schema Lister
To get started with Schema Lister, you'll first need to install the Salesforce Cloud Toolkit, a collection of command-line tools for Salesforce developers and administrators. You can download the toolkit from the Salesforce CLI website.
Once you have the Salesforce Cloud Toolkit installed, you can use the sfdx plugins:install sfdx-plugin-cloud-toolkit command to install the Schema Lister plugin. Then, you can use the sfdx schema:list command to generate a report of your organization's schema.
Generating a Schema Report
When you run the sfdx schema:list command, Schema Lister will generate a report of your organization's schema in CSV format by default. The report includes information on all custom objects, fields, and relationships, as well as standard objects that have been customized in some way.
Here's an example of the output from the sfdx schema:list command:
In this example, the report includes information on three custom objects (Account, Contact, and Opportunity) and the standard Account and Contact objects. It also includes information on the fields and relationships for each object.
Customizing the Schema Report
Schema Lister allows you to customize the output of the schema report in a variety of ways. Here are some of the most useful options:
- --output-format: Specifies the format of the report (CSV, JSON, or HTML).
- --object: Filters the report to only include information on a specific object or set of objects.
- --field: Filters the report to only include information on a specific field or set of fields.
- --related-object: Filters the report to only include information on relationships to a specific related object.
- --namespace: Filters the report to only include information on objects in a specific namespace.
For example, if you wanted to generate a report of only the Account object in JSON format, you could run the following command:
Conclusion
Schema Lister is a powerful tool that can save Salesforce developers and administrators a lot of time and effort in managing their organization's schema. By generating detailed reports of your schema in a variety of formats, Schema Lister can help you keep your