Can someone guide me on how to check how many saved searches are using one of the custom fields in a record using SDF?

If a saved search depends on a custom field, it will have a

<dependencies>

tag indicating which fields are required. You could do a search through your saved search XML objects to figure that out.

I want to know if any saved search is using that custom field. Not just a single one. Never used SDF so require some guidance.

Right, so look at every saved search XML object, and see if it has the

<dependencies>

tag. If it does, then see if it has the field referenced there. Do that for all of the saved searches.

I will have more than 2000 saved searches in the system. Is there any easier way like i could do a search on entire dump somehow with field internal I'd and see where it's all being used.

Here's an example

That i can do. How can I get all these XMLs ?

Oh, I thought you were already using SDF. Create a new SDF project on your computer. Import all saved searches from NS into your project.

Got it. Will check thanks.

I have a m/r script that can do this. Basically you load the saved search and check the filters/columns for what you're looking for.

I frequently use a little command line utility called

ag

to search file content

Can you share it dcrsmith ?

@raghav Give me an account number and I can provision the bundle.