Workbench is a community-contributed, web-based application that gives administrators and developers on-demand access to useful tools to manage salesforce.com organizations. Starting with a combination of the features of the Apex Data Loader, Force.com Explorer, and System Log, Workbench can insert, upsert, update, query, search, delete, undelete, and purge data as well as describe any object or execute Apex scripts directly in your web browser. These functions build on the strengths of these existing products to create an even more powerful and easier-to-use on-demand application. Not only can the Workbench be used as a standalone application in your browser, but it can also be integrated within Salesforce as a single-sign-on web tab for more convenient access. Now with version 2.4.17, records can be loaded into Salesforce asynchronously via the new Bulk API, more user customizations, and many functions have been enhanced to work across mutiiple environments and API versions.
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2009-11-07 PHP Bulk API Client 17.0 Now Available
Workbench 2.4.17 introduced support for the new Force.com Bulk API, but now you can use the same REST-based Bulk API client used in Workbench in your own PHP-based applications. All dependencies on Workbench have been removed and is now available as a standalone download with sample code and instructions.
Download http://code.google.com/p/forceworkbench/downloads/detail?name=PHP-BulkApiClient17.0_2009-11-09.zip
2009-10-10 Workbench 2.4.17 Now Available
Upgraded Partner and Apex clients to Force.com API 17.0 Added support for new API 17.0 Describe results format and maintain backward compatibility to older API versions. In addition, when logged in with API 17.0 and higher, Workbench only displays the objects that are supported for a particular operation.
Asynchronous Bulk API Data Loading With the new Bulk API introduced by Salesforce in Winter '10 (API 17.0), Workbench now fully supports asynchronous Insert, Update, and Upsert data loading operations over a new REST-based API client. This has been seamlessly integrated with the existing synchronous operations to support CSV field mapping, Smart Lookup, and asynchronous results monitoring.
Enhanced Configuration Overrides In previous versions of Workbench, admin-controlled configurations had to be applied directly in the config.php file, which could change from version to version; however, these customizations can now be added to the new configOverrides.php file which will automatically override any default settings in config.php and not be affected by changes made during Workbench upgrades. Administrators can still give allow end users override any configurations on the Settings menu and their preference will be remember from session to session.
See Version History for more details.
Download: http://forceworkbench.googlecode.com/files/workbench2.4.17_2009-10-10.zip
2009-10-04 Workbench 2.4.17 Beta 2 Now Available
Thank you to everyone who downloaded Beta 1. Over the past couple weeks, I have been making tweaks based on feedback and completed a good amount of internal refactoring. Most of these changes should not be too obvious to end users, but there is always the chance that new bugs crept in with the changes, so the more people who download and try out Beta 2, the better shape we'll be in for the GA release next week. Changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2 include:
- Removed extraneous option for Bulk API operations for Delete, Undelete, Purge (should only work for data loading operations)
- Added created and updated times for Bulk API operations
- Increased default max file sizes
- Jump to login page after logout (2 sec delay)
- Correctly reference Bulk API (instead of deprecated 'Async API' naming)
- Change default endpoint to login.salesforce.com to reflect post 17.0 changes
- Corrected minor formatting issues in IE
- Added configOverrides.php file to keep the original config.php file clean for upgrades
- Added a setting to optionally disable SSL connections to Salesforce
- Enhanced SSL checker to detect unsecure connections to Salesforce in addition to local machine to Workbench connections
- Added a default client id for Workbench. End users can still override, if needed.
- Added sticky option for Advanced login screen if frequently used. (still defaults to Standard login)
- Spelling corrections
- Refactoring and centralization of: page names, menu building, Apex API versions, version number, endpoint construction, error handling
Download: http://forceworkbench.googlecode.com/files/workbench2.4.17_Beta2_2009-10-05.zip
2009-09-21 Test Drive Workbench 2.4.17 Beta 1
Hot off the presses and ready to be tested, I'm proud to announce the first beta release for Workbench 2.4.17 on the heals of the Salesforce Winter '10 being released to Sandbox!
The big new feature is full support for the new Force.com Bulk API 17.0 that allows for asynchronous data loading when performing inserts, updates, and upserts. In addition, support has been added to work with new describe data in API 17.0 to properly filter object names for the operation being performed (i.e. only see queryable objects when querying), while still allowing for backward compatibility of older API versions. Stricter adherence to the WSDLs for each API version has also been introduced.
With a few weeks to go until the scheduled release, download Workbench 2.4.17 Beta 1 today and provide feedback. Please remember that you must use this version with Salesforce organizations already upgraded to Winter '10 to take advantage of the new features.
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