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Supported Salesforce metadata

The Salesforce metadata API
The Salesforce metadata API is used to retrieve, deploy, create, update or delete customization information, such as custom object definitions and page layouts, for Salesforce organizations. Bluefactory supports all metadata that is supported by the API.

The API supports the most used Salesforce metadata:

  • Apex classes

  • Communities

  • Custom objects

  • Dashboards

  • Documents

  • Email templates

  • Flows

  • Layouts

  • Permission sets

  • Picklists

  • Profiles

  • Reports

  • Settings

  • Translations

  • Value sets

  • Workflows

There is a full list of the supported metadata here.

Unsupported metadata
There are a small number of metadata types which are not supported. This may seem like an important limitation, but fortunately, the types of metadata that are not supported by the API are rarely used.

The following is an exhaustive list of unsupported metadata types:
Account Teams, Activity Button Overrides, Analytic Settings, Automated Case User Settings, Auto-number on Customizable Standard Fields, Calendars, Campaign Influences, Case Contact Roles, Case Feed Layouts, Case Team Roles, Console Layouts, Multiline layout fields for contract line items, Currency Exchange Rates, Data Category Visibility Settings, Delegated Administration, Divisions, Fiscal Year, File Upload and Download Security Settings, Lead Settings, Live Agent chats routed with Omni-Channel, Mail Merge Templates, Mobile Administration, Mobile Users and Devices, Multiline layout fields for opportunity teams, Offline Briefcase Configurations, Opportunity Big Deal Alerts, Opportunity Update Reminders, Organization Wide Email Addresses, Outlook Configurations, Partner Management, The following standard picklists: IdeaTheme.Categories, Order.Status, Question.Origin. (All other standard picklists are supported.), Predefined Case Teams, Product Schedule Setup, Quote Templates, Salesforce to Salesforce, Self-Service Portal Font and Colors, Self-Service Portal Settings, Self-Service Portal Users, Self-Service Public Solutions, Self-Service Web-to-Case, Service report templates, Site.com, Social Account/Contact Settings, Social Business Rules, Social Customer Service Settings, SoftPhone Layout, Solution Categories, Solution Settings, Standard fields that aren’t customizable (such as autonumber fields or system fields), Tag Settings, Territory Assignment Rules, User Interface Settings (except calendar features, which are supported in ActivitiesSettings), Web Links on Person Account Page Layouts, Web-to-Lead.