Ant Migration Tool Guide

Ant Migration Tool
Installing the Ant Migration Tool
Using the Ant Migration Tool
Entering Salesforce Connection Information
Constructing a Project Manifest
Creating Retrieve Targets
Retrieving Unpackaged Components
Retrieving Managed or Unmanaged Packages
Retrieving Components in Bulk
Retrieving Metadata from a Salesforce Organization
Editing Metadata
Deleting Files from an Organization
Deploying Changes to a Salesforce Org
Checking the Status of a Task
Common Migration Issues
Glossary
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Retrieving Managed or Unmanaged Packages

Packages are useful for distributing related bundles of metadata across multiple instances or organizations, via Lightning Platform AppExchange. However, you can use the Ant Migration Tool to freely retrieve and deploy packaged metadata without using AppExchange. You retrieve both managed and unmanaged packages in the same way.

To retrieve a package, specify a packageNames parameter in the build.xml file. For example: