Ant Migration tool is used to Create and Fetch Metadata to and from an organisation. It’s a command-line utility by which one can upload and download Metadata components.

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Ajay Dubedi
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2. Ant Migration tool is used to Create and Fetch Metadata to and from an
organisation. It's a command-line utility by which one can upload and
download Metadata components.
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3. 1. Its very useful for creating repetitive deployment or may be a large number
of components just by executing a command in an command line interface.
2. Useful for uploading test environment with a lot of configuration settings.
3. Manually creating Fields, Objects may take a huge amount of time when you
create them by clicking with the salesforce interface. These fields can be
created with one command in the Command line interface and using
Package.xml file in which you specify the information about all the fields.
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4. 1. The Name of the components we can Deploy or retrieve are as follows:
a. Custom Fields.
b. Objects.
c. Workflow rules.
d. Apex Triggers.
e. Apex Class.
f. Visualforce Pages. Etc.
The Whole list is mentioned in this link:
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-
us.api_meta.meta/api_meta/meta_types_list.htm
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5. 1. Download Force.com migration tool from your salesforce organisation.
a. Go to Setup.
b. Type “Tool” and Click on Force.com Migration tool & Toolkits.
c. Go to the Following Link for downloading Ant:
https://gs0.salesforce.com/dwnld/SfdcAnt/salesforce_ant_36.0.zip
1. Add the bin directory to your path.
2. Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to the directory where you installed
Ant.
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6. 1. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the directory where the JDK is
installed.
1. Run command in Command line Interface: “ant -version” to check the version
and confirm the installation.
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8. 1. Create three Files:
a. Package.xml - Which consists the specifications for the components.
Usage
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9. a. Build.properties - Which consists the Credentials of
the salesforce Organisation to & from which you want
to Upload/Download.
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10. Note: You have to mention Security token at the end of
the password of the Org in which you want to Upload the metadata.
Build.xml - This file is used to set the attributes
which will be used in the Command line
interface such as “Project Name”,”Property File”,
”retrieveTarget folder( where Downloaded metadata info will be
saved)”
,”unpackaged(Package.xml file)”.
<project name="ANT Migration" default="test"
basedir="." xmlns:sf="antlib:com.salesforce">
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13. 1. Go to the path where you stored these files and then Run commands
as follows:
a. Upload(Which you mentioned in your build.xml file as target) -
For uploading components you mentioned in the Package.xml
file.
b. Retrieve- For downloading the Components information you
mentioned in the package.xml file and then that information will
be created in a folder(Self Generated folder Named as Retrieve).
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