Force.com Migration Tool : Email Templates

Question

I am looking to retrieve all email templates using Force.com ant migration tool. I believe we can not have bulk retrieve for Email Templates, Reports etc.

Is there any way we can retrieve all email templates in one go without specifying each template name? I believe we can some custom implementation using Metadata API, but wondering if someone has already implemented custom ant task for it.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Email Templates, Reports etc. are in folders, so you must provide the containingFolder attribute to the sf:bulkRetrieve task and you'll get back all the items in that folder. For example:

<sf:bulkRetrieve 
    username="${sf.username}" 
    password="${sf.password}" 
    serverurl="${sf.serverurl}" 
    retrieveTarget="retrieveUnpackaged" 
    metadataType="EmailTemplate"
    containingFolder="SalesTemplates"
/>

To find the folder names themselves, you can query the Folder object and filter on the Type column for the metadata type you are interested in. For example:

SELECT DeveloperName FROM Folder WHERE Type = 'Email'

Answer 2

Have you tried having the following in your mainfest file.? It should retrieve all the Email Templates:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>*</members>
        <name>EmailTemplate</name>
    </types>
    <version>23.0</version>
</Package>

Answer 3

If you have the folder/ template names, you can deploy individually, just not using wildcards.

(You could probably script out the member list and construct a dynamic .xml build file)

<types>
  <members>Simple_Survey</members>
  <members>Simple_Survey/Alert_Managers_NPS_Survey_Created</members>
  <name>EmailTemplate</name>
</types>