A recent discussion on Twitter around sharing Salesforce configuration between admins has motivated me to revisit this tool. Before getting into anything major (watch this space). I decided to get back into the tools code by addressing a few outstanding maintenance tasks, enhancements and bug fixes, as well as treating it to a face lift!
As some of you may have noticed the tool has now adopted the Salesforce Lightning Design System look and feel. This new version is not just cosmetic, its also addressed some key enhancements and bug fixes…
In keeping with the Lightning principles, this release makes the Deploy to Salesforce button (example shown below), even easier to place in your repository README files with less configuration required. The button will now automatically detect the GitHub repository. Which is useful if you Fork a repository into your own account or rename it, you no longer need to change the README file. The button code is now also smaller.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This only works if your placing the button code in a GitHub README file. If your planning on using the button on a blog, article or wiki etc tick Use Specified Owner and Repository checkbox to have the specified repository details encoded into the button code as before.
This release has now also addressed issues preventing use with repositories that have Reports or Lightning Components in them. So you can now use the tool to deploy your favourite open source Lightning Components!
Finally if you have any private repositories, an improvement around the error handling in this area has also been made. Thanks to some great code contributions from Moti Korets and Nathan Kramer for the whole GitHub private repository support! Thanks guys!
