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
Deploying Components
Deploying Code
Deploying a Recent Validation
Running Tests in a Deployment
Running a Subset of Tests in a Deployment
Run the Same Tests in Sandbox and Production Deployments
Canceling a Deployment
Checking the Status of a Task
Common Migration Issues
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Deploying Components

The Ant Migration Tool is retired with Spring ’24. The tool continues to function for future API versions but isn’t updated with new functionality and isn’t supported. To manage metadata changes, switch to Salesforce CLI for a modern, supported developer experience.

Note

You can deploy any set of components as a package or into your organization directly in the unpackaged package. The package used is not determined by the build.xml target, but by the project manifest (package.xml). A sample deployment target follows: