Create README.md

Author: codeulike

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# SandboxBerry
+A tool for copying test data into Salesforce sandboxes
+
+# What is this for?
+
+During Salesforce development you will generally create Sandboxes based on your production environment, and then 
+do development in the Sandbox. Most Salesforce Sandboxes are blank (except for the more expensive ones). Generally to do
+some development you're going to want some data in there, for example
+
+* Any reference tables/objects you've created (e.g. Country__c - a list of countries)
+* Some sample data in the main tables to experiment with during development.
+
+So ... you can try and copy some data accross using DataLoader or an ETL tool, but you'll quickly find:
+
+* Ids of each row of data change when you transfer it to the Sandbox, which makes things difficult with related data 
+(e.g. Accounts and Contacts)
+* You will sometimes have different fields in your Sandbox (old fields removed, new fields added)
+* Users who are owners of records may have been deactivated in production or might be missing from the Sandbox, 
+making it difficult to transfer their records
+
+SandboxBerry can help with these problems.
+
+This is how SandboxBerry works:
+
+* You give it a list of Salesforce objects (in the form of an XML file)
+* optionally you can specify filters for those objects in SOQL syntax
+* SandboxBerry will then transfer the data for those objects from your Source (usually Production) to a Target (always a Sandbox)
+* While transferring the data, it fixes the following problems:
+** Relationships between objects will automatically be preserved, substituting new Ids for the old Ids
+** Any inactive or missing users will be defaulted to the user specified by you
+** Only the objects fields that are present in both Source and Target will be transferred
+* Optionally, you can skip specific fields or hard-code their values in the Target - this can be useful for anonymisation
+
+Please note that SandboxBerry takes some liberties with the data to get it to fit into your sandbox (e.g. changing the owner 
+of records). The idea is: Its test data, so its better to have something rather than nothing. However this means that SandboxBerry 
+should not be used for transferring **into** a production instance. Because of this, SandboxBerry will only allow you to specify Sandboxes 
+as the target.
+
+# Getting Started
+
+SandboxBerry is a windows application written in C# and uses the .NET Framework 4.5.  
+Visual Studio 2012 was used for the initial project but it should be easily loadable in more recent versions of VS.  
+Download the solution and ooen it in VS
+
+tbc
+