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Maria Alexandra Andrica 6Maria Alexandra Andrica 6 

Field Descriptions

How can I export all field descriptions for a specific object? 
Khan AnasKhan Anas (Salesforce Developers) 
Hi Maria,

Greetings to you!

You can use 'Salesforce inspector' plugin to export metadata (along with a field description) directly from the Salesforce UI.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/salesforce-inspector/aodjmnfhjibkcdimpodiifdjnnncaafh?hl=en

How to use: https://www.mstsolutions.com/technical/salesforce-inspector/

I hope it helps you.

Kindly let me know if it helps you and close your query by marking it as solved so that it can help others in the future. It will help to keep this community clean.

Thanks and Regards,
Khan Anas
Maria Alexandra Andrica 6Maria Alexandra Andrica 6
Hello Khan ,

Can you please give me more details on how the description can be downloaded with the SalesforceInspector? I did not find a way. Thank you!!
Matthew GreathouseMatthew Greathouse
I'm having this problem too. Does anyone know how to use salesforce inspector to export field names and descriptions?
Erica Thomas 19Erica Thomas 19
I just used Salesforce Inspector to export field names and descriptions. To do so:
  1. Choose Download Metadata
  2. Select All defaults, deselect it and then select objects. 
  3. Click download metadata
  4. This downloads all metadata for all objects into a zip file. Once unzipped, you'll see a file for each object and can drill into it. You can search pretty easily by "field" and see the field attributes including name and decription.
Aegis SoftworksAegis Softworks
Salesforce Inspector is great if you only need to do one object.

If you want to do a bunch of objects in bulk though, AND get the field descriptions, then SDDC (https://aegissoftworks.com/sddc/) is an excellent product, specifically designed for this kind of thing.

It's especially good for doing repeat-exports of sets of objects. You might want to export 50 objects on Monday, and then do another export of those same 50 objects on Friday, so you can compare them side by side. SDDC lets you save those 50 objects as an 'object set', so you don't have to select those objects manually the second time around. It also lets you dump the entire schema into a single tab, instead of one object per tab. This makes it pretty easy to do a vlookup comparison between the two snapshots.

Start to finish, you can be fire up the program, auto-login, auto-select-objects, and export, in about 15 seconds. New data dictionaries, basically on-demand.