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Use Welkin Suite to delete a production trigger?

started by muchavie 04 Jan 2018 - 05:40 PM

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#1

muchavie

Member
22 posts

Posted 04 Jan 2018 and edited 10 May 2019

Salesforce makes deleting a trigger in a production environment hard. This is the only task that I use Force.com IDE (Eclipse) for.

The steps using Eclipse can be found at:

https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000003942&type=1

I wonder has anyone tried following these steps using Welkin Suite instead of Eclipse? I've got a trigger delete coming up in the next couple weeks and I'm not looking forward to dusting off Eclipse just to perform this task.

Thanks in advance!

Peter

Here's a little more info. See this stackexchange post:

https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/5776/deleting-triggers-classes-from-production

Would opening Welkin Suite on a production org and updating and saving the xml file associated with the trigger as shown below work?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ApexClass xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <apiVersion>23.0</apiVersion>
    <status>Deleted</status>
</ApexClass>

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#2

vlgubanovich

TWS Team
426 posts

Posted 04 Jan 2018

Hi Peter,

Thank you for getting to us with this question!

Of course no need to disturb Eclipse... let it rest :)

Steps to do the same are pretty similar, but it just took me less than 3 minutes doing this, so I believe it's easier than using Eclipse.

Changing the -meta.xml file and trying to build it against the production won't help - Salesforce don't allow this change to be done in a such way, however there's another way:

1. Get your sandbox (* - yup , details in small font below) project opened with the trigger present there

2. Change the status to "Inactive" in the -meta.xml for your trigger

3. Right-click on the project and select 'Deploy to organization', enter the credentials of your production org and choose only the trigger you want to deactivate and proceed with deployment

Once the previous step is done - the trigger is inactive. If you need to delete it, you'll need 2 (okay, 3) more steps:

4. Right-click on the project and select the 'Project metadata components', find your trigger, uncheck it and apply the changes

5. Again navigate to the 'Deploy to organization', enter the credentials of the prod org and choose your trigger - the "Action" near it will state "Delete". Proceed with the deployment

6. As your action in the 4th step removed the 'Subscribe' mark from your triggers in the project, please open once more the 'Project metadata components' and click the 'Subscribe' button near the 'Apex Triggers'

Might look like "too much steps", but the process is pretty straightforward and works really fast.

Regarding that * in the 1st step - tomorrow (Friday) we'll release a new version of TWS for Mac where you will be able to deploy to the same organization using the 'Deploy to organiation' features and, even, you won't need to enter your credentials. So with the (not yet released) Blaze R9 you'll be able to open/create a project directly for your prod environment and do everything even faster (while with the same number of steps).

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

Vladimir

Vladimir Gubanovich
Head of Product

The Welkin Suite
skype id: vladimir.gubanovich
e-mail: vladimir.gubanovich@welkinsuite.com

#3

muchavie

Member
22 posts

Posted 04 Jan 2018 and edited 04 Jan 2018

I will try this! Thank you!

#4

Ganesha303

Member
3 posts

Posted 04 May 2018

Vladimir -

Do you have steps for also doing this with classes? I tried the process above but classes apparently cannot be changed to inactive and using "deleted" does not work. I would love to retire eclipse for this purpose.

Thanks,

Gabriel Chapman

#5

kate.dulko

TWS Team
1721 posts

Posted 10 May 2018

Hi Gabriel,

Thank you for your question.

We are aware that these steps don't work to make an apex class 'inactive', and currently we are looking for a way to provide you with an ability to do this directly from the IDE.

I will let you know when we will implement an additional functionality for this or will find a possible workaround.

If you have any other questions, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Regards,

Kate

Kate Dulko
Customer Relations

The Welkin Suite

twitter: @KateDulko
skype id: d_katerina
e-mail: kate.dulko@welkinsuite.com

#6

michaelforce

Member
2 posts

Posted 12 Jul 2018

Hi Katie (or anyone who can help) is there an update here? I have some Apex classes I would like to delete and I really do not want to have to reinstall eclipse just for that.

Cheers!

#7

kate.dulko

TWS Team
1721 posts

Posted 25 Jul 2018

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your question.

You can follow the steps which are described here and in this way you will be able to delete the necessary Apex Class.

Hope this would help and there won't be a necessity to reinstall eclipse :)

If you would have any additional questions, please let me know and I'll be happy to assist.

Best Regards,

Kate

Kate Dulko
Customer Relations

The Welkin Suite

twitter: @KateDulko
skype id: d_katerina
e-mail: kate.dulko@welkinsuite.com

#8

srikar.beemagouni

Member
60504
1 posts

Posted 08 May 2019

vlgubanovich, on 04 Jan 2018 - 09:57 PM, said:

Hi Peter,

Thank you for getting to us with this question!

Of course no need to disturb Eclipse... let it rest :)

Steps to do the same are pretty similar, but it just took me less than 3 minutes doing this, so I believe it's easier than using Eclipse.

Changing the -meta.xml file and trying to build it against the production won't help - Salesforce don't allow this change to be done in a such way, however there's another way:

1. Get your sandbox (* - yup , details in small font below) project opened with the trigger present there

2. Change the status to "Inactive" in the -meta.xml for your trigger

3. Right-click on the project and select 'Deploy to organization', enter the credentials of your production org and choose only the trigger you want to deactivate and proceed with deployment

Once the previous step is done - the trigger is inactive. If you need to delete it, you'll need 2 (okay, 3) more steps:

4. Right-click on the project and select the 'Project metadata components', find your trigger, uncheck it and apply the changes

5. Again navigate to the 'Deploy to organization', enter the credentials of the prod org and choose your trigger - the "Action" near it will state "Delete". Proceed with the deployment

6. As your action in the 4th step removed the 'Subscribe' mark from your triggers in the project, please open once more the 'Project metadata components' and click the 'Subscribe' button near the 'Apex Triggers'

Might look like "too much steps", but the process is pretty straightforward and works really fast.

Regarding that * in the 1st step - tomorrow (Friday) we'll release a new version of TWS for Mac where you will be able to deploy to the same organization using the 'Deploy to organiation' features and, even, you won't need to enter your credentials. So with the (not yet released) Blaze R9 you'll be able to open/create a project directly for your prod environment and do everything even faster (while with the same number of steps).

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

Vladimir

When i trying to delete it says Invalid api version:0.0

How can i get over this.

thanks

Srikar.

#9

ihor.zhabolenko

Member
234 posts

Posted 10 May 2019 and edited 10 May 2019

Hello Srikar.

Thank you for your question.

I kindly ask you to reproduce this one more time and please send us a bug report with attached log files directly from the IDE - you can find this functionality in the menu Help -> Report a Bug, please specify your email and enable the "Attach Log File" checkbox.

This way we would receive your TWS log files which could help us to find a reason for the error.

Regards,

Ihor

TWS Team

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