Slides from the presentation at the Salesforce Word Tour event in Amsterdam (April 14th 2016) about Custome Metadata Data Types, given in the Trailhead Zone

1. Salesforce World Tour
Amsterdam | April 14, 2016
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2. Speakers
Samuel Moyson
Developer at ABSI
@SamuelMoyson
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3. Custom Metadata Data Types
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7. Agenda
1. Intro
2.Standard Metadata Type vs Custom Metadata Type
3.Creation of Custom Metadata Type
4.Creation of Custom Metadata Records
5.Custom Metadata Types in Managed Packages
6.Not only point & click
7.Demo
8.Limits
9.Roadmap 7

8. Application configurations
Before
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After
Custom Object
Custom Setting
Custom Metadata

9. Why
▪ Deploy metadata records, no need to create them
everywhere
▪ Visible for Apex Tests without SeeAllData = true
▪ Traceability (Audit Trail History)
▪ No install scripts for configuration data for managed
packages
▪ Source Control / Continuous integration
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10. Deployment
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Custom Metadata Type
Custom Metadata Records

11. Standard Metadata Type
Predefined attributes
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12. Custom Metadata Type
Self Defined attributes
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13. Create Custom Metadata Type
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14. Create field
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Managed
packages

15. Create Custom Metadata record with Salesforce interface
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16. Custom Metadata Loader
▪ https://github.com/haripriyamurthy/CustomMetadataLoader --- Haripriya Murthy
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17. Custom Metadata Loader
▪ CSV
▪ Import CSV
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18. Custom Metadata Loader
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19. Managed packages
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Managed
packages

20. Managed Packages
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Upgradable
Subscriber
Editable
Locked
Package developer can change field value via package
upgrade
Package Apex code change field value
Subscriber can change field value
An extension package can change field value
Extensions package’s Apex code can change field value

21. Not only point & click..

22. Demo
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Start here
Install Managed Package

23. Limits
▪ 100 fields per Custom Metadata Type
▪ 100 Custom Metadata Types per Organization
▪ Unlimited SOQL query per transaction
▪ 50.000 records returned per transaction
▪ 200 Custom Metadata Types in one call
▪ 10MB Custom Metadata per organization
▪ 10MB Custom Metadata per certified managed package
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24. Roadmap (Safe Harbor)
▪ Relationships (Beta - Summer ‘16, GA - Winter ‘17)
▪ Long text areas (Spring ‘17)
▪ Trailhead (may-june?)
▪ Triggers.. Ability to update Metadata from Apex (Apex
Metadata API)
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26. Questions

27. Thank You
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