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Gearset cannot retrieve standard tabs
Gearset cannot retrieve standard tabs

And how Gearset can retrieve standard tab visibilities

Valerio Chang avatar
Written by Valerio Chang
Updated over a week ago

Gearset can retrieve and compare anything that the Salesforce metadata API can return to the application. If the metadata API cannot retrieve something, Gearset cannot render it. Standard tabs from orgs fall under this category. 

When you try to retrieve a standard tab via Workbench, which also uses the metadata API, with the manifest file:

<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
  <types>
    <members>standard-Account</members>
    <name>CustomTab</name>
   </types>
  <version>48.0</version>
</Package>

The result confirms that the metadata API does not support the retrieval of a standard tab.

Custom tabs created by users do not have this restriction. 

As this is a problem with the metadata API, this behavior isn't a problem for git sources and targets.

If the metadata API is updated to support the retrieval of standard tabs in the future, Gearset would be able to too.

Standard tab visibilities

We have done some work to make it possible to fetch the visibilities of standard tab, in your metadata filters you will need to include Profile + Custom object + Custom tab. More information is available in our support article that explains how to deploy Profiles.

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