Hi, Experts - I am running data loader command line export. How can I pass in a parameter to sfdc.extractionSOQL in process-conf file from the .bat, so the export data can vary based on passed in parmameter value ? Thank you.

Hi, Experts - I am using data loader; however when importing I quickly found out there validation, trigger, filters in my way to mass import records. Without manual steps, how can I disable all these in pre-load and enable them again post-load programically. Some snippets /KBs will help as I am very new to sforce, thank you.

Hi, Experts - I got account and contact records into a sandbox and saved old ID values as in external / legacy fields for both objects. Question: using data loader how can I go about re-establish relations between account and contact utilizing external / legacy fields ? I did not want to work with csv files - thought data loader or any other API way I could do this ....help is appreciated, thank you.

Hi, experts - For picklist datatype columns - how do we find out underlying objects supplying picklist values either declaratively or querying metadata , thanks.

Hi, Experts -

Has anyone faced with data loading into a sandbox issue around as sforce auto-generate record Ids and relationships to other objects are lost ? I am seeing some info people tried with creating an extra field as legacy_id, then Vlookup manual efforts....any automated way data loading/ imports into a sandbox be done. Hopefully to automate this process thru command line I am trying to get to ? Any ideas ....thanks.

Hi experts -

I am new to SFDC dev.

 

Question:

How can I copy data (criteria applied) between sandboxes ? Could some one share steps, KB links etc on this subject

(declarative and programmatic approaches ) would be great help.

 

Thank you.

 

Hello I use the Force IDE client (I do not run Eclipse). Is there a way to export my SFDC Schema? I need this to create tables on a SQL database that receives date from Salesforce.com thru the Informatica cloud connector Thanks for your help Giorgio

Hi, Experts -

Has anyone faced with data loading into a sandbox issue around as sforce auto-generate record Ids and relationships to other objects are lost ? I am seeing some info people tried with creating an extra field as legacy_id, then Vlookup manual efforts....any automated way data loading/ imports into a sandbox be done. Hopefully to automate this process thru command line I am trying to get to ? Any ideas ....thanks.