Metadata Search

This app from AppExchange should be one of the favorite app for Salesforce admin and developers, it help us to search for anything related to metadata in your Salesforce.

The Salesforce Global Search feature is primarily meant to search for data in standard objects and custom objects.

Then, Salesforce Setup Search (beta) able to search for following items:

1. Approval Post Templates 
2. Approval Processes 
3. Assignment Rules 
4. Compact Layouts 
5. Custom Buttons or Links 
6. Custom Home Pages 
7. Duplicate Rules 
8. Email Alerts 
9. Email Templates 
10. Field Updates 
11. Fields 
12. Groups and Queues 
13. Home Page Components 
14. Objects 
15. Permission Sets 
16. Profiles 
17. Roles 
18. Static Resources 
19. Users 
20. Workflow Outbound Messages 
21. Workflow Rules 
22. Workflow Tasks 

Notes:

• Only search with label name, not with API name
• Not need to enter full name, example: search for "Monitor" will return "My Monitor" or "Monitor (%)"
• Not to enter special character, example: % ( ), search Monitor (%) will return no result, although Monitor (%) is the real label

With Metadata Search app (currently version 1.24), it search following items:

1. Apex Classes
2. Apex Triggers
3. Approval Processes
4. Apps
5. Assignment Rules
6. Business Processes
7. Buttons and Links
8. Components
9. Custom Settings
10. Dashboards **
11. Email Templates
12. Fields
13. Objects
14. Pages 
15. Permission Sets
16. Public Groups
17. Profiles
18. Queues
19. Recent Items
20. Record Types
21. Reports **
22. Roles
23. Setup Audit Trials
24. Sites
25. Static Resources
26. Validations Rules
27. Workflow Email Alerts
28. Workflow Field Updates
29. Workflow Outbound Messages
30. Workflow Rules
31. Workflow Tasks

** this app currently do not search filter or fields in Report and Dashboard, only the name.

Note:

• The searching process is slower compare to standard Setup Search.
• You can use label name or API name to search
• In order to be able to search Workflow/Validation Rules, the app need to connect to the Salesforce Tooling API. A Remote Site Setting must be created in your org before you can use this tool. Please create Remote Site Setting (Setup | Security Controls | Remote Site Settings) with Remote Site URL, example: https://metadatasearch.na3.visual.force.com or if you use custom domain https://myname-developer-edition--metadatasearch.na3.visual.force.com

Type: AppExchange (Managed Package)

Paid/Free: Free

Publisher: Satrang Technologies

Installation: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000009wgF7EAI

Version: 1.24

Blog last update: 29 May 2016