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    Activity › Forums › Salesforce® Discussions › How to find that a field is not supported in Salesforce Metadata API?

    Tagged: Metadata API, Metadata Types, Order Status, Picklist, Salesforce Apex, Salesforce Fields, Salesforce SOQL, Web-to-Lead

    • Salesforce® Discussions

      How to find that a field is not supported in Salesforce Metadata API?

      Posted by Nitish on April 30, 2016 at 4:55 PM

      I have the Order Status field in the Order. Object file defined simply as follows:

      <fields>
      <fullName>Status</fullName>
      <picklist>
      <picklistValues>
      <fullName>Draft</fullName>
      <default>false</default>
      </picklistValues>
      <picklistValues>
      <fullName>Activated</fullName>
      <default>false</default>
      </picklistValues>
      </picklist>
      <trackHistory>true</trackHistory>
      <type>Picklist</type>
      </fields>

      I get the error:

      Order.object: This standard picklist field not supported in metadata API

      Avnish Yadav replied 7 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
      • Metadata API
      • Metadata Types
      • Order Status
      • Picklist
      • Salesforce Apex
      • Salesforce Fields
      • Salesforce SOQL
      • Web-to-Lead
    • 2 Replies
    • Surbhi

      Member
      June 21, 2016 at 2:30 PM

      Hi Nitish,

      Following are the unsupported metadata types:

      Account Teams
      Activity Button Overrides
      Analytic Settings
      Automated Case User Settings
      Auto-number on Customizable Standard Fields
      Campaign Influences
      Case Contact Roles
      Case Feed Layouts
      Case Team Roles
      Console Layouts
      Currency Exchange Rates
      Data Category Visibility Settings
      Delegated Administration
      Divisions
      Email Services
      Fiscal Year
      HTML Document and Attachment Settings
      Lead Settings
      Mail Merge Templates
      Mobile Administration
      Mobile Users and Devices
      Multiline layout fields for opportunity teams
      Offline Briefcase Configurations
      Opportunity Big Deal Alerts
      Opportunity Update Reminders
      Organization Wide Email Addresses
      Partner Management
      The following standard picklists: Lead.CampaignMemberStatus, Opportunity.ForecastCategoryName, and Order.Status. (All other standard picklists are supported.)
      Predefined Case Teams
      Product Schedule Setup
      Public and Resource Calendars
      Quote Templates
      Salesforce to Salesforce
      Standard fields that aren’t customizable, such as autonumber fields or system fields
      Self-Service Portal Font and Colors
      Self-Service Portal Settings
      Self-Service Portal Users
      Self-Service Public Solutions
      Self-Service Web-to-Case
      Site.com
      Social Account/Contact Settings
      Solution Categories
      Solution Settings
      Tag Settings
      Territory Assignment Rules
      User Interface Settings (except calendar features, which are supported in ActivitiesSettings)
      Web Links on Person Account Page Layouts
      Web-to-Lead

      Thanks

    • Avnish Yadav

      Member
      September 30, 2018 at 3:29 AM

      Hello,

      The following components can’t be retrieved or deployed with Metadata API, and changes to them must be made manually in each of your organizations:

      Account Teams
      Activity Button Overrides
      Analytic Settings
      Automated Case User Settings
      Auto-number on Customizable Standard Fields
      Campaign Influences
      Case Contact Roles
      Case Feed Layouts
      Case Team Roles
      Console Layouts
      Multiline layout fields for contract line items
      Currency Exchange Rates
      Data Category Visibility Settings
      Delegated Administration
      Divisions
      Fiscal Year
      File Upload and Download Security Settings
      Lead Settings
      Live Agent chats routed with Omni-Channel
      Mail Merge Templates
      Mobile Administration
      Mobile Users and Devices
      Multiline layout fields for opportunity teams
      Offline Briefcase Configurations
      Opportunity Big Deal Alerts
      Opportunity Update Reminders
      Organization Wide Email Addresses
      Outlook Configurations
      Partner Management
      The following standard picklists: IdeaTheme.Categories, Order.Status, Question.Origin. (All other standard picklists are supported.)
      Predefined Case Teams
      Product Schedule Setup
      Public and Resource Calendars
      Quote Templates
      Salesforce to Salesforce
      Self-Service Portal Font and Colors
      Self-Service Portal Settings
      Self-Service Portal Users
      Self-Service Public Solutions
      Self-Service Web-to-Case
      Service report templates
      Site.com
      Social Account/Contact Settings
      Social Business Rules
      Social Customer Service Settings
      SoftPhone Layout
      Solution Categories
      Solution Settings
      Standard fields that aren’t customizable, such as autonumber fields or system fields
      Tag Settings
      Territory Assignment Rules
      User Interface Settings (except calendar features, which are supported in ActivitiesSettings)
      Web Links on Person Account Page Layouts
      Web-to-Lead

      Thanks.

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