Errors during data deployments can be confusing to say the least. Here’s some of the recent changes which will help you deploy your data.
Gearset makes deployment errors clearer
The error messages from Salesforce’s API often aren’t clear about why an error has happened or how you can fix it. One of the most common errors we see is DUPLICATE_EXTERNAL_ID.
DUPLICATE_EXTERNAL_ID:ExternalId: more than one record found for external id field:
[0011t00000Mdx67AAB, 0011t00000MdwoiAAB, 0011t00000GG3I4AAL, 0011t00000MxOKaAAN]
Gearset now explains why errors have happened and what you need to do to fix them. For example, I’ve tried to upsert the Account object using the Name field as the external id. Unfortunately several records in the target have the same name, which causes the DUPLICATE_EXTERNAL_ID error.
We’ve also written help docs which explain the errors in more detail.
Honesty about whether the deployment was successful
We’ll be clear about what happened during a deployment.
If we’ve deployed every single record then we’ll say the deployment was successful.
If we’ve deployed some, but not all records, then we’ll say so.
If we haven’t deployed any records, that’s what we’ll say.
Any suggestions?
If there’s other errors which you think could be clearer then let us know! Email us at [email protected] or leave a message in the live chat. We’ll fix the error or provide more information about it to help you finish your deployment.