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Retrieve Page Layout Assignment using package.xml in SFDX

I'm trying run sfdx:...retrieve using package.xml profiles, record types and page layouts. Retrieve is working as designed, but Page Layout Assignment is not getting retrieved. is not getting created in the package.

Based on the articles it should be created for this configuration.

• variable-assignment

I tried this using ANT migration tool and it worked. I retrieved all profiles, record types and Page layouts. It retrieved layout assignments as well.

Give it a try.

Here is my package.xml

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Learning Objectives

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Configure Page Layouts and Record Types

After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:

• Set up the page layout for a record type.
• Create a record type.
• Use a record type to assign a page layout to a profile.

Create a Page Layout for Readers

Article readers and article authors perform different actions and see different fields on a knowledge article, so Maria must create different page layouts for these users. She creates the page layout for readers first. Let’s follow along and see what she does.

• Click Object Manager and select Knowledge .
• Click Page Layouts .
• Click New .
• If you’re basing the page layout on an existing layout, choose it. Maria selects None .
• Enter the name of your page layout. Maria enters Procedure - Reader .
• Click Save .

The layout editor opens. Let’s take a moment to get acquainted with it.

• Knowledge object (1)
• Page Layouts (2)
• Palette (3) —The palette contains Fields, Related Lists, and Mobile & Lightning Actions that you can add to your page layouts. In this example, Fields is selected, so the palette displays available fields. You can also create custom fields.
• Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions (4) —This section displays actions users can perform on the page. Drag items from the Mobile & Lightning Actions palette to add them to this section.
• Knowledge Detail (5) —Drag items from the Fields palette to add them to the page layout. In this example, the first section is named Knowledge Details, and it contains Title and URL Name.

Add Actions and Fields

Maria keeps the palette open and consults the list she made with Ada. She’s going to set up the page layout section by section: actions readers can perform, article information, article details, and article properties.

First, she sets up the actions that readers can perform on the article.

• In the palette, click Mobile & Lightning Actions .
• Hover over the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section.

• Drag Post to the Salesforce Mobile and Lightning Experience Actions section. Post allows users to post to the Article Feed.
• Drag Poll next to Post.

Next, she sets up the Knowledge Detail section. The Title and URL name fields are already there and set as required. She adds one field.

• In the palette, click Fields .
• Drag Summary to the Knowledge Detail section.

Now she creates a section with more information about procedures.

• Name the section. Maria enters Article Details .
• Leave the defaults checked, then click OK .

Maria has to create custom fields to finish the Article Details section. She decides to create the other sections first and then come back to the custom fields. Here’s what she does.

• To reopen the editor after saving, click Page Layouts .
• To reopen the page layout, click Procedure - Reader .
• Create a section under Article Details. Maria uses the following values:
• Section Name: Properties
• Layout: 2-Column
• Tab-key Order: Top-down
• Add the following fields to the first column:
• Article Created Date
• Last Modified by
• Last Published Date
• Add the following checkboxes to the second column:
• Visible in Internal App
• Visible to Customer
• Visible to Partner
• Visible in Public Knowledge Base

Create Custom Fields

Maria has set up everything she can using the fields in the palette. On to creating custom fields for the Article Details section.

The first field she creates is Procedure Audience, a text field for describing an article’s audience.

• Click Fields & Relationships .
• Choose the field type. Maria chooses Text Area (Rich) .
• Click Next .
• Fill out the values. Maria uses these values.
• Field Label: Procedure Audience
• For Length, # Visible Lines, and Field Name she leaves the default values.
• Description: Use this field to identify who follows or executes this procedure.
• Help text: Who follows this procedure?
• Establish field-level security. Maria selects Visible for all profiles.
• Add the field to the palette for the page layout you’re creating. Maria chooses Procedure - Reader . Salesforce adds the new field as the last field in the first section by default. That’s where Maria wants it to go, but she can move it anytime if she changes her mind.

Maria repeats these steps to create custom fields for Procedure Warnings, Procedure Purpose, and Procedure Steps. She makes sure that the fields are in the correct order in the Article Details section.

Here’s her finished page layout for procedure readers.

Create a Page Layout for Authors

The Procedure - Author and Procedure - Reader page layouts are similar. But the author page has some different actions and an extra field for internal notes. The Internal Notes field is available only to agents who can author articles. Maria creates the Procedure - Author page layout from the existing Procedure - Reader layout.

• If you’re basing the page layout on an existing layout, choose it. Maria selects Procedure - Reader .
• Name the page layout. Maria enters Procedure - Author .

Maria changes the actions. Instead of Poll and Post actions, Maria includes: Edit, Publish, Delete Article, Change Record Type, Edit as Draft, Delete Draft, Submit for Approval, Assign, Archive, Restore, and Post.

She creates a custom field for Internal Notes using the following values.

• Data type: Text Area (Rich)
• Field Label: Internal Notes
• Field-level security: Custom: Support Profile . Maria created this profile for Ursa Major when she set up the knowledge base.
• Page layout: Procedure - Author . This adds the field to the Procedure - Author page layout at the bottom of the first new section. Maria makes a note to ask Ada later if she should add this field to the FAQ - Author page, too.

Here’s what Maria’s page layout for Procedure - Author looks like with the new fields.

Create and Assign a Record Type for Procedures

Maria has created two different page layouts—one for readers and one for authors. Now she creates a record type to show the correct page layout to the correct users. How does she know which users are which? By their profiles. Customers see the Procedure - Reader page layout. Agents see the Procedure - Author page layout.

Here’s how Maria creates and assigns the Procedure record type.

• Click Record Types .
• Select an existing record type to use as a template. The new record type includes the picklist values of the selected record type. Maria chooses Master .
• Enter a label for your record type. Maria enters Procedure .
• Enter a description. Maria enters For step-by-step instructions .
• Select Active to make this record type available immediately.
• Select the profile that will use this record type. Maria selects Make Available next to the Customer profiles listed.
• Select the page layout that users with these profiles see for this record type. Maria chooses Procedure - Reader .

All users assigned the Customer profiles see the Procedure - Reader page layout. They can view articles, but they can’t edit them.

Next, Maria assigns the Procedure - Author page layout to agents using the regular profile user interface. Agents can edit articles.

• Enter Profiles in the Quick Find box, then select Profiles .
• Select a profile. Maria chooses Custom: Support Profile , a profile she created earlier.
• Scroll down to Custom Record Type Settings and click Edit .
• Move the needed record types from the Available Record Type box to the Selected Record Types box. Maria adds FAQ and Procedure .
• Choose a default record type. Maria chooses FAQ .

Maria’s configured a new type of article, procedures, in Ursa Major’s knowledge base. To do it, she created different page layouts and assigned them to the correct users via record types. It’s time for Ada to start creating the procedures.

In addition to page layouts, you can also add and customize components on record pages. Maria doesn’t need that level of customization, but you might. To learn more, check out the Lightning App Builder module.

• Salesforce Help: Create Custom Fields
• Salesforce Help: Page Layout Considerations for Lightning Knowledge
• Salesforce Help:  Record Type Considerations for Lightning Knowledge
• Salesforce Help: Create and Edit Articles
• Trailhead: Lightning App Builder
• Salesforce Help: Assign Record Types and Page Layouts in the Enhanced Profile User Interface
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Is Page Layout Assignment in SFDX source?

I'm noticing that every time I spin up a new scratch org, I lose the page layout assignments I've specified for each of my Product2 recordtypes.

Is page layout assignment something that's supposed to be included in my SFDX project source? If so, does anybody have any ideas about why that isn't being pulled down when I do a force:source:pull? And if not, has anyone come up with any workarounds for this issue?

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• Did you pull the Profile object as well? If not, then that would be an expected behavior. –  sfdcfox ♦ Commented Dec 14, 2017 at 23:22
• I didn't think it was possible not to. I understood that force:source:pull is going to pull all the custom metadata in a scratch org regardless of type. Is there something specific I need to do to reference specific metadata types? –  AGallinat Commented Dec 14, 2017 at 23:51
• @AGallinat Did you find out how to get the layout assignment metadata? –  Carl Otto Gjelsvik Commented Jan 22, 2019 at 14:14

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I noticed that to get layout assignment you have to specify that you want to retrieve Profile, Layout, RecordType and CustomObject at the same time. You may also want to provide your_custom_object, like this:

For some reason, changing page layout assignments isn't detected by sfdx force:source:status or pull. I got the whole profile metadata using

Then snipped out everything except the layoutAssignments snippet(s) I wanted.

• 1 Any idea why both sfdx force:source:retrieve and sfdx force:mdapi:retrieve aren't giving me the layoutAssignments? –  digglemister Commented Apr 6, 2021 at 1:02

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