Feature-Request: Excluding Object-Chatter Feeds and Object-Field-History from Metadata

[hbuchner]

For most of the Salesforce.com objects, an additional object exists, that contains the chatter feed related to that object Feed or that contains the field history for tracking audit trails of single field value changes History. When generating documentation or metadata exports, these objects don't really generate value, but make the volume of meta data and output larger than needed. Therefore, it would be of value having an option to exclude all objects with names *History or *Feed from the export.

[jwiesel]

Implementation approach:

• Add new parameter for "MetadataExclusionRules" to properties-file
• value contains a list of metadata-types and search-patterns
• Example for feature request sf.metadata-exclusion=CustomObject::*History|*Feed
• several exclusion rules can be combined also across metadata types
• Example to exclude all roles and territories sf.metadata-exclusion=Roles::*,Territories::*
• As the feature is not yet implemented the syntax might change