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I started with Peter Chittum’s Apply the Salesforce CLI to Everyday Problems. Thankfully Peter is talking about Powershell and Bash these days. I went to the Github repo and all of a sudden was stuck. What is the ISE? Wh do I need to know about that? What is a profile? And everything past about half way in that video is a bit over my head - when he starts talking about “tail”, then I know he’s not talking to me. It’s like devs who just say “touch” the file. You know you are talking to a Mac dev and you know to just ignore and walk away and try to find someone that can speak your language.

So I think what he’s doing is trying to get you to have a default set of commands that open up each time you open VS Code. This is stored in a profile it seems. I could not work out Peter’s instructions though.

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still works too!

Extending Functions

Now we can see in Peter’s example that functions can be a bit more interactive.

Function dxopen ([string]$u) {
    If ($u -ne '') {
        sfdx force:org:open -u $u     
    } Else {
        sfdx force:org:open
    }
}

so now we can see we can add parameters to functions. The $u is saying whatever is entered directly after dxopen then stick it after the command sfdx force:org:open -u

So I want to add another command like that to set default org.

sfdx force:config:set defaultusername=

Function dxdefault ([string]$u) {
    If ($u -ne '') {
        sfdx force:config:set defaultusername=$u     
    } Else {
        Return ''
    }
}

Reload VS Code

Type

dxdefault yourOrgAlias

The default org is now set.

Now you can use the window icon in the status bar to open that org.

That’s enough for now. At least we have some simple aliases.