Salesforce to VS Code: A Developer's Guide to Effortlessly Retrieving Email Templates

Welcome back, developing developers! It's William from Smoothstack, and today we're diving into a common yet puzzling scenario in Salesforce development: retrieving Email Templates into Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Have you ever been stuck trying to move your Email Templates from your dev org to a test environment, only to find them mysteriously missing in VS Code? Well, you're not alone, and this tutorial is here to unravel this mystery!
In this video, I'll guide you through the three essential steps to successfully retrieve Email Templates into VS Code:
Finding the Email Templates to Retrieve: We'll use SOQL to locate the templates you need.
Formatting the Information: I'll show you how to prepare the folder and file names for Package.xml.
Retrieving the Email Templates using Package.xml: The final step to bring those elusive templates into VS Code.
But first, let's do a quick knowledge check: Which fields are crucial when querying for Email Templates in Salesforce? Developer Name? Created Date? Stick around to find out.
By the end of this tutorial, the process of retrieving Email Templates from Salesforce into VS Code will be demystified. You'll gain valuable insights and practical skills to streamline your workflow in Salesforce development. If you find this video helpful, please hit the like button and subscribe for more Salesforce solutions. Have any questions or tips of your own? Share them in the comments below!
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[@Saravjeet0013]

Use forward slash instead of backslash between folder name and template name… otherwise it will not work

[@sushmakalle5940]

you could've simply used workbench to download the query results into a csv!!