Deploying Business processes with ANT

I have tried to deploy business processes with ant. I seem to have the syntax wrong. I am seeing Entity type: ‘businessProcesses’ is unknown

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmls="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
  <types>
    <members>Lead.Process1 </members>
    <name>businessProcesses</name>
  </types>
  <version>32.0</version>
</Package>

Answers:

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Method 1

There are two ways:

The entire object

According to the documentation business processes are deployed as part of the custom object metadata file (.object), so you get it if you include the object in the package xml

The package.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>Lead</members>
        <name>CustomObject</name>
    </types>
    <version>33.0</version>
</Package>

Just the BusinessProcess

In the package.xml specify the BusinessProcess element:

<types>
    <members>Lead.Test Process</members>
    <name>BusinessProcess</name>
</types>

You can use the Workbench tool to find out the value to put in the XML. In workbench, select Metadata Types & Components. Then select Business Processes. Then select the Object (e.g., Lead). Then find the fullName value.

Snippet of the auto-generated object XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CustomObject xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
....
    <businessProcesses>
        <fullName>Test Process</fullName>
        <description>Lead Process for hardware division</description>
        <isActive>true</isActive>
        <values>
            <fullName>Closed - Converted</fullName>
            <default>false</default>
        </values>
        <values>
            <fullName>CustomLeadStep1</fullName>
            <default>false</default>
        </values>
        <values>
            <fullName>CustomLeadStep2</fullName>
            <default>false</default>
        </values>
        <values>
            <fullName>Open - Not Contacted</fullName>
            <default>false</default>
        </values>
        <values>
            <fullName>Working - Contacted</fullName>
            <default>true</default>
        </values>
    </businessProcesses>
....
</CustomObject>

Method 2

Besides, you can use Visual Studio to obtain that info. First, you can retrieve the BusinessProcesses by using the following package:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>*</members>
        <name>BusinessProcess</name>
    </types>     
    <version>53.0</version>
</Package>

After looking at the retrieved data, you will see something like that:

=== Retrieved Source
FULL NAME                      TYPE             PROJECT PATH                                                                                
─────────────────────────────  ───────────────  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Case.Case Default              BusinessProcess  force-app/main/default/objects/Case/businessProcesses/Case Default.businessProcess-meta.xml

Now you can see that there is a business process named as “Case Default” (or something else). Now you are sure you can use the following Package:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>
        <members>Case.Case Default</members>
        <name>BusinessProcess</name>
    </types>     
    <version>53.0</version>
</Package>

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