HOW TO RETRIEVE ALL METADATA FROM SALESFORCE ORG BY PACKAGE.XML

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This manifest contains a collection of metadata components and identifies them by their application programming interface (API) names, listing every component by type and corresponding with each metadata file. 

 A manifest file can include multiple <types> elements so you could combine the individual samples into one package.xml manifest file if you want to work with all the metadata in one batch.

Steps:

  1. Create a new package.xml file in the root of your project.
  2. Define the types of metadata that you want to retrieve/deploy in package.xml.
  3. The <members> element specifies the metadata components that you want to retrieve, and the <name> element specifies the type of metadata.
  4. The * wildcard is used to retrieve all components and all types of metadata.
  5. You can retrieve components from salesforce by Salesforce CLI and workbench.
  6. To retrieve all metadata from a Salesforce org, you will need to include the following elements in your package.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>*</members>
        <name>*</name>
    </types>
    <version>56.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Profile, Roles, Queues, Groups, Permission Set:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>Sample Profile Name</members>
        <name>Profile</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>SampleRoleName</members>
        <name>Role</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>SampleQueueName</members>
        <name>Queue</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>SamplePermissionSet</members>
        <name>PermissionSet</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>SampleGroup</members>
        <name>Group</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Email Template & Workflow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>FolderName/SampleEmailTemplateName</members>
        <name>EmailTemplate</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>SampleWorkflow</members>
        <name>Workflow</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Flow and Process Builder Process :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleProcessName</members>
        <members>SampleFlowName</members>
        <name>Flow</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Custom Object and fields :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleCustomObject</members>
        <name>CustomObject</name>    
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>ObjectName.CustomFieldName</members>
        <name>CustomField</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Custom Metadata :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>CustomMetadataName.SampleRecord</members>
        <name>CustomMetadata</name>    
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Custom Label :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleCustomLabel</members>
        <name>CustomLabels</name>    
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Visualforce Page :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleVFPage</members>
        <name>ApexPage</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Apex Trigger :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleTrigger</members>
        <name>ApexTrigger</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Apex Class :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleApexClass</members>
        <name>ApexClass</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Lightning Aura Component :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleAuraComponent</members>
        <name>AuraDefinitionBundle</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve LWC Component :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleLWC</members>
        <name>LightningComponentBundle</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Tabs and Quick Actions :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleTab</members>
        <name>CustomTab</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>ObjectName.SampleQuickAction</members>
        <name>QuickAction</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

Retrieve Lightning Message Channel:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>SampleChannelName</members>
        <name>LightningMessageChannel</name>
    </types>
    <version>57.0</version>
</Package>

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