[SalesForce] How to get the Available Record Types by Profile for a STANDARD Object

I found this post (especially Adam Torman's comment) really helpful in getting to the most elusive element of a profile–which record types are assigned to it for creation:
Available Record Type by Profiles

However, when I did a "Retrieve" in Workbench with a package.xml with * on CustomObject and * on Profile, I only got the permissions for recordtypes on Custom Objects, not standard objects like Account and Case (where I really need it). I know this sounds obvious because the metadata element literally says "CustomObject", but when I look at my package.xml I pull down in MavensMate, Account and Case ARE listed in there. And there certainly doesn't seem to be a metadata type for StandardObject.

Does anybody know how to pull this down in a similar way? We have thousands of record types and hundreds of profiles (bad I know–this is part of an effort to clean them up). We've written a python script that reads through the XML and compiles it into a nice excel file, but the missing link is all of the record type profile permissions on standard objects, which are of course the most important.

Best Answer

Standard objects aren't retrieved using the CustomObject wild card syntax. You must specifically reference each standard object you want to retrieve.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Package xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
<types>
    <members>Account</members>
    <name>CustomObject</name>
</types>
<types>
    <members>*</members>
    <name>Profile</name>
</types>
<version>26.0</version>
</Package>
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