Select Environment in which you have to take backup e.g Sandbox
After that It will Show a list pf all meta data components that You want to retrieve on your local system . Now you can choose reports to retrieve Metadata of reports.
HI, You can't retrieve personal folder reports from salesforce.To do that you have to move personal reports to public folders After that You can retrieve all reports. personal folders, for reports are not retrieved in the Metadata API.To retrieve reports you will need to move them to a public folder.
Yes It is possible to retrieve reports meta data using eclipse.
Download Force.com Plugins
Link :- https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Force.com_IDE_Installation
Then:-
- Create new project and select Force.com
- Enter username, password,security Token
- Select Environment in which you have to take backup e.g Sandbox
After that It will Show a list pf all meta data components that You want to retrieve on your local system . Now you can choose reports to retrieve Metadata of reports.Thanks for your reply.
I also do that way,
but not all reports show,
it only shows unfiled$public reports.
how do you think?
Regards
LinThaw
You can't retrieve personal folder reports from salesforce.To do that you have to move personal reports to public folders After that You can retrieve all reports.
personal folders, for reports are not retrieved in the Metadata API.To retrieve reports you will need to move them to a public folder.