Force.com Explorer (Beta) is out!

By Jon Mountjoy | Published: July 29, 2010

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Check out the Force.com Explorer (beta) – a cross-platform database tool for, well, exploring your database!

If you’re at all familiar with Apex Explorer or SoqlXplorer, you’ll know what it is. It’s not quite as fleshed out as the other tools, yet, but we do hope to stay on top of it. Right now you can explore your schema, nip down the tree of fields and child relationships in an object, right click on an object and generate a schema report (PDF included!), and execute SOQL queries.

There are a couple of known issues listed on the download page in the Known Issues section – I’ll try and stay on top of them to make sure they’re up to date. I’ll also try and note which bugs are nailed in various releases (we’ve already had a minor release since yesterday). Stay tuned to the blog (and probably a little more to our twitter feed) for updates. (The in-app update mechanism isn’t working yet – we’ll get that fixed too ;-) )

In the mean time, have fun – and let us know of any bugs you find. In the future, we hope to add many more features – especially output (copying to clipboard, exporting etc.).

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  • http://www.EGAFutura.com Juan Manuel Garrido

    This is an amazing tool. Thank you very much! :)

  • http://www.astadia.com Damion Allen

    I am not able to get this working for Sandbox. I set the setting to “Sandbox” and enter the credentials that work in the older (.net) version of the tool and get invalid messages. But with the “Sandbox” setting set, I am able to enter production credentials and connect to a production instance.

  • http://developer.force.com/ Jon Mountjoy

    Thanks Damion. I think there’s a bug in the login logic that holds the state over from one session to another. Try restarting the app, and making sure to hit “Okay” on login settings. Hope to squash soon.

  • http://ezrakenigsberg.com Ezra

    A suggestion: when posting files with datestamps on them, splice minus signs in them:
    “FDE_2010-08-05.air” instead of “FDE_20100805.air”
    it makes it much easier to read. Tnx!

  • http://Developer.force.com Jon Mountjoy

    Ezra, we hope to soon support in-app auto-update, in which case you will never need to look at the file name again!

  • Raghu

    Bug : Not showing the field list for account object. Not sure if this is happening because our instance has several custom fields but still apex explorer list them all. Suggestion : Since this is still in beta, it would be easy to report bugs if there is a button which says report a bug.

  • http://developer.force.com Dana Le

    Thanks for the suggestion, Raghu! I agree, a feedback button will be helpful, I’ll see when we can incorporate such a thing.

  • neo

    What is the clientID field on the login screen? Are we required to enter the security token. I am not able to connect to the sandbox ORG. I tried it closing it and launching it multiple times but it did not work.

  • http://developer.force.com/ Jon Mountjoy

    Lo Neo. I just successfully logged onto sandbox. I ignored client id, and just flipped the “environment” to “Sandbox”, hit “save”, then put in my username/password.
    You may need a token depending on whether you are logging into your sandbox from a trusted IP range or not. That’s up to your org’s configuration. To be safe, append it to your password.

  • Varun Chaddha

    I loved this app, especially the generate report in PDF and report viewer part.
    Where can I download the Source Code for this? I would love to view the code for PDF generation sections :) plz …

  • http://developer.force.com/ Jon Mountjoy

    I believe there are plans to consider open sourcing it once it’s a tad more developed Varun. Glad that you’re enjoying it. Stay tuned!