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Chrome Extension which generate package.xml from change set Salesforce has powerful tool, change set, which provides admins the ability to move and deploy bundle of components to different connected SFDC ORGs. However it becomes tedious when you have to keep in sync several sandboxes. Or if you have big project going on having big list of components, in this case you need to select all the components one by one which is time consuming job. There is one idea to create package.xml from change set. https://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000jh8sAAA# However till the time this idea is delivered by salesforce, I have created a chrome extension which extracts the components of change sets and creates package.xml. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sfdc-magic-toolkit/kilgdoafhhpkloidoajmlfienjndfbfo?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon We know that through ANT migration tool we can easily deploy set of components to different sandboxes hence this exte...

This post answers the following question What should be the date format while uploading by data loader Its always tough to upload the dates/date time through data loader due to the lack of proper documentation. Below table shows the exact format while uploading dates/datetimes through data loader. Also find the URL below for more details. Format Format  Syntax Example Date  only YYYY-MM-DD 1999-01-01 Date , time, and time zone offset YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+hh:mm YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss-hh:mm YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ 1999-01-01T23:01:01+01:00 1999-01-01T23:01:01-08:00 1999-01-01T23:01:01Z here's a link to the guide:  http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/index_Left.htm#StartTopic=Content/sforce_api_calls_soql.htm