Salesforce Minimized Terminal

If you have a small screen or you don't want to close the terminal every time after a Salesforce action (like me), you can use this extension to Deploy or Retrieve Salesforce metadata and only show the terminal if the has any errors.

Requirements

• Salesforce Project
• Authenticated Salesforce Org
• Opened file

Features

You can Deploy or Retrieve these following metadata:

• Apex Class
• Apex Trigger
• Flexi Page
• Flow
• LWC
• Page Layout
• Permission Set
• Permission Set Group
• Visualforce Component
• Visualforce Page

How to use it

With an opened file edit your source, save locally and then use one of the methods:

Salesforce Minimized Terminal: Deploy this source

Salesforce Minimized Terminal: Retrieve this source

You can access these commands on:

1. Right-click on the open file

2. Command Pallet option

Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P

3. Keyboard shortcut 🔥

Set each Salesforce Minimized Terminal command as a keyboard shortcut on:

File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts

Wait for the response

If there is error, a Terminal named Salesforce Minimized Terminal will be shown with the related errors;

If there is no error, the Terminal will not be opened and a success message is shown;

Deploy

Salesforce Minimized Terminal: Deploy this source

Related settings:

• Deploy: Confirm Action
• Deploy: Save Locally First
• Deploy: Warning Save Before Deploy
• Show Error Alert

Retrieve

Salesforce Minimized Terminal: Retrieve this source

You don't need to save files before retrieve, this command automatically save files and related files (-meta.xml .js .html .css) and then retrieve from Salesforce org.

Related settings:

• Retrieve: Confirm Action
• Show Error Alert

Settings

You can check all extension settings on:

File > Preferences > Settings > Extensions > Salesforce Minimized Terminal

Show Error Alert

default: true

In addition to opening the terminal, it also displays an error message.

Retrieve: Confirm Action

default: false

Show a confirm before running the Retrieve command.

Deploy: Confirm Action

default: false

Show a confirm before running the Retrieve command.

Deploy: Save Locally First

default: true

When using the Deploy extension command, file and related files will be automatically saved locally and then deployed to Salesforce.

Deploy: Warning Changes Before Deploy

default: false

When using the Deploy extension command, show a warning message if the file or related files (-meta.xml .js .html .css) has local unsaved changes.

*This function is only an alert and will not prevent the deployment attempt.

Setting Deploy: Save Locally First overwrite this setting.

Attention

This extension uses --ignore-conflicts flag on Salesforce CLI command

Other VSCode extensions

You can check others extensions that I've created on my VSCode Marketplace page

Author

• Jonathan Valoto - GitHub