Anyone seen SDF for a custom list XML definition contain embedded &quote inside a list abbreviation? That is causing me to have 'exceeded max 15 characters' errors trying to deploy that list. In the actual list

&quote;

is only one character of course:

"

. What was the remedy? I mean, this is SDF creating the XML file that is unusable? <abbreviation>2&quot; x 5 yds.</abbreviation> <isinactive>F</isinactive> <value>2&quot; x 5 yds.</value> </customvalue>

Yikes, annoying

I would advise double checking the list once you deploy it if moving between SB/Prod or between accounts. I've found NS seems to re-order the list and creates it with the wrong internal ids compared to sandbox. It also sometimes creates them as 101, 201, 301 etc...

I'm finding other escaped characters in one list, which again push it over the 15 character limit. 😞 @NElliott you're saying lists in general are potentially risky to move (i.e. your comment isn't particular to errors with XML escaped characters)?

Yeah correct.

Bummer. I've done some list deployments and never seen it mismatch on internal ids

It's entirely possible it's fixed (internal ids) but I'm wary of the issue having had my fingers burnt with them in the past, just a heads up.

Indeed. If we can't rely on SDF to reliably create exactly the same customization on the target environment it's somewhat worthless

i haven't seen the ids get created in a different order yet. I know in JS you are never guaranteed object property order so maybe something weird happened. Its java in the background I believe so maybe it was a bug there.