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 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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Editing Metadata

You can use any UTF-8 text editor to make changes to the files you retrieve.

Text editors that do not natively support UTF-8 may insert a byte order mark (BOM) at the top of the file, which can cause problems in the XML metadata.

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