Salesforce CLI

Salesforce CLI is a powerful command line interface that simplifies development and build automation when working with Salesforce org. With Salesforce CLI, you can :

1. Create and Manage orgs
2. Create Scratch orgs
3. Synchronize metadata to and from orgs
4. Create & install packages
5. Create & execute tests
6. Import and export data

To download Salesforce CLI, visit https://developer.salesforce.com/tools/sfdxcli and download for your operating system.

Some of the most commonly used Salesforce CLI commands are :

1. sfdx force --help
   1. All available topics
2. sfdx force:doc:commands:list
   1. All available commands
3. sfdx force:auth:web:login -d -a DevHub
   1. Authorize Dev Hub org
   2. -d is set default Dev Hub org
   3. -a is for setting alias
   4. DevHub is alisa
4. sfdx force:org:open -u DevHub
   1. Login to DevHub org
5. sfdx force:auth:web:login -r https://test.salesforce.com -a FullSandbox
   1. Login to Sandboxes
   2. use FullSandbox word if you have set alias else use username
6. sfdx force:project:create -n geolocation
   1. Creates a folder called geolocation, and scaffolds a new project with all assets in the proper folder structure
   2. geolocation is a name of the project
7. sfdx force:org:create -s -f config/project-scratch-def.json -a GeoAppScratch
   1. The -s option indicates that you want this scratch org to be the default org for this project when running Salesforce CLI commands. To use a different org on a per command basis, you can specify the -u argument and specify another alias.
   2. The -f option is the path to the project scratch org configuration file.
8. sfdx force:data:record:create -s Account -v "Name='Marriott Marquis' BillingStreet='780 Mission St' BillingCity='San Francisco' BillingState='CA' BillingPostalCode='94103' Phone='(415) 896-1600' Website='www.marriott.com'"
   1. Create Account record
9. sfdx force:data:tree:export -q "SELECT Name, BillingStreet, BillingCity, BillingState, BillingPostalCode, Phone, Website FROM Account WHERE BillingStreet != NULL AND BillingCity != NULL and BillingState != NULL"-d ./data
   1. To retrieve data in a file.
10. sfdx force:data:tree:import--sobjecttreefiles data/Account.json
    1. Import json data
11. sfdx force:apex:class:create -n AccountSearchController -d force-app/main/default/classes
    1. Create apex class with name AccountSearchController in directory force-app/main/default/classes
12. sfdx force:source:push
    1. Push change to the org
13. sfdx force:lightning:event:create -n AccountsLoaded -d force-app/main/default/aura
    1. Create lightning event with name AccountsLoaded in directory force-app/main/default/aura
14. sfdx force:lightning:component:create -n AccountSearch -d force-app/main/default/aura
    1. Create lightning event with name AccountSearch in directory force-app/main/default/aura
15. sfdx force:source:pull
    1. To pull source from the org to local system
16. sfdx force:user:permset:assign -n Geolocation -u GeoTestOrg
    1. Assign permission set Geolocation
17. sfdx force:org:display -u TempUnmanaged
    1. View the configuration data for the scratch org
18. sfdx force:user:password:generate -u TempUnmanaged
    1. Create a password
19. sfdx force:mdapi:retrieve -s -r ./mdapipackage -p DreamInvest -u TempUnmanaged -w 10
    1. Create package in the folder mdapipackage
    2. DreamInvest in the package in the org
    3. TempUnmanaged is the org alias
20. sfdx force:mdapi:convert -r mdapipackage/
    1. un package the code in folder mdapipackage and add to the force-app folder
21. sfdx force:org:delete -u TempUnmanaged
    1. Deleting the scratch org TempUnmanaged
22. rm -rf mdapipackage
    1. Clean up your project by deleting the Metadata API source
23. sfdx force:org:list
    1. list of all orgs

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