Salesforce Deployment using Ant Migration Tool
Salesforce offers a few options to deploy config and code between sandboxes and into production. Most commonly used is the standard inbuilt changeset option, allowing a user to select the exact components they wish to deploy and use the Salesforce interface to manage and perform the deployment. There are times however when changesets can be a little ineffective, especially when needing to select and deploy a large set of components or the need to perform repeated deployments. In these circumstances it may be better to use the Ant Migration Tool to perform the deployment. Steps to using the Ant Migration Tool are listed below: Step 1 - Download the Force.com Migration tool . A direct link to the zip file can be found here . Step 2 - Save the zip file and extract it to a local folder on your hard disk. Step 3 - Navigate to the /samples directory within the zip file. Step 4 - Open the build.properties file and setup your username and password for your source...