Extract Base Metadata Expansion

[Megan-Pietra]

Hi everyone, I'm wanting to improve upon the Extract Base Metadata script to include more features. Has anyone experimented with this?

Ideally it would:

• Gather the metadata currently acquired by the Base Metadata Extract extension (listed below)
• Be capable of running automatically at regular intervals.
• Indicate if the field has been deleted.
• If the field is a linked record field to another table limited to a view, name that view
• Indicate if the field is in use in an interface
  • SHOULD: name those interfaces
• If the field is a lookup from a linked record, name the originating record
  • SHOULD: link directly to that record
• Show which interfaces the field shows up on and make updates when fields are removed or added to interfaces

[kuovonne · Accepted solution]

You can write a an automation script that extracts metadata and runs automatically at regular intervals.

However, your script will be limited to the metadata that is available to scripting. Several of the features you want are not available in scripting, such as which fields have been deleted and which fields are in interfaces. You can see the data that is available in the scripting documentation.

[Megan-Pietra]

Ah, gotcha. That makes sense. Thank you Kuovonne!