[SalesForce] Deploying Profiles / Permission Sets that include object & field permissions for Managed Objects

Anyone know if it's possible to deploy profiles/permission sets via Eclipse or an Unmanaged Package that contain object & field permissions for 3rd party managed objects?

I'm trying to deploy a profile from one org that contains object/field permissions for objects that are part of a managed package (not a package that I have access to, but that is from a 3rd party vendor).

The problem that I'm running into is that the profile/permission set XML files in eclipse don't even contain the object/field permissions for these managed objects, they only contain the object/field permissions for standard Salesforce objects & custom unmanaged objects.

I'm able to deploy the profiles/permissions sets to another org but only the premissions for standard & custom unmanaged objects get migrated… none of the permissions for the 3rd party managed objects move.

Best Answer

This is possible, provided your package.xml is configured correctly. From the directions at http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/AppExchange-Directory-Packaging/Reading-complete-profiles-using-the-Metadata-API-or-sf-retrieve/td-p/213903

Using Field Trip as an example, in my package.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <types>  
        <members>Field_Trip__Field_Analysis__c</members>
        <name>CustomObject</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>*</members>
        <name>Profile</name>
    </types>
    <version>25.0</version>
</Package>

In the profile XML retrieved I see:

<fieldPermissions>
        <editable>true</editable>
        <field>Field_Trip__Field_Analysis__c.Field_Trip__Field_Created_Date__c</field>
        <readable>true</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>true</editable>
        <field>Field_Trip__Field_Analysis__c.Field_Trip__Label__c</field>
        <readable>true</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
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