First step to start with coding in Salesforce.com is to install the force.com IDE in Eclipse. I will target the new version of eclipse which is Kepler. Force.com IDE is supported in Eclipse Juno as well as Eclipse Kepler.
So, we will start with launching the Eclipse.

then goto Help -> Software Update / Install new software…
Then Add Force.com site.
- Click “Add Site”. The Add Site dialog opens.
- Set the Name to “Force.com IDE” and the Location to “http://media.developerforce.com/force-ide/eclipse42“, then click “OK.”
After you add the site, you will get the list of all available plugins, click on force.com and then click Next.
In the Install dialog, click “Next” then accept the terms and click.
follow the instructions and IDE will be installed.
After Installation, Create new Project of type Force.com.
- Salesforce UserName
- Salesforce Password
- Salesforce Security Token
How to update Force.com IDE ?
Salesforce releases new feature almost three times a year like Winter, Spring and Summer release. So at those time, API version also gets changed. If you will not update your force.com IDE, you will always end up with creating Apex and other resources in Old version. So it is always recommended to update existing installation of force.com IDE. To update IDE you have to follow below steps :
- Open Force.com IDE and Navigate to Help | Show Force.com Start Page.
- On Upper right hand corner of new Window, there will be link to update IDE.
Salesforce.com IDE Installation error
While installing eclipse, if you get error something like
Cannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency. Software being installed: Force.com IDE 20.0.1.201011121559 (com.salesforce.ide.feature.feature.group 20.0.1.201011121559) Software currently installed: Shared profile 1.0.0.1284708747720 (SharedProfile_epp.package.java 1.0.0.1284708747720) Only one of the following can be installed at once: Structured Source Editor 1.2.2.v201008232126 (org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui 1.2.2.v201008232126) Structured Source Editor 1.1.102.v200910200227 (org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui 1.1.102.v200910200227) Cannot satisfy dependency: From: Shared profile 1.0.0.1284708747720 (SharedProfile_epp.package.java 1.0.0.1284708747720) To: org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui [1.2.2.v201008232126] Cannot satisfy dependency: From: Force.com IDE 20.0.1.201011121559 (com.salesforce.ide.feature.feature.group 20.0.1.201011121559) To: org.eclipse.wst.html.ui [1.0.0,2.0.0) Cannot satisfy dependency: From: HTML UI Source Editor 1.0.401.v200908111935 (org.eclipse.wst.html.ui 1.0.401.v200908111935) To: bundle org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui [1.1.0,1.2.0)
Solution :
This issue is actually caused by Windows 7 UAC (User Access Control) which doesn’t allow Eclipse to be updated if you’re running it from within the “c:\program files” directory. Eclipse doesn’t know how to handle that problem and stupidly reports some misleading conflict information. If you move Eclipse install to “c:\eclipse” It will work just fine.
Check this post if you are getting error – Unable to refresh from server in IDE
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thanx dude to help me……..god bless uuuu.
how to get Security Token plse tell me
Hi Rachna,
Go to Set up-> Personal Information there you will get option to reset the security token. it will be delivered by email.
Regards,
Jitendra Zaa
How ti use force.com ide after installation.
please let me know..
how to get Security Token plse tell me
Hi Rachna,
Go to Set up-> Personal Information there you will get option to reset the security token. it will be delivered by email.
Regards,
Jitendra Zaa
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I am beginer in salesforce.
I want to know about eclipse?
what is the use of the eclipse?
Getting below mentioned error message when try to create new project with necessary user name / password and secure token.
User or organization does not have sufficient permissions
Hi,
I created a developer account of force.com and act as an administrator have all the permissions. still I am getting below error message when trying to create a new Force.com project.
“Force.com Projects require an organization with the Metadata API enabled. API is not enabled for this organization.”
Hi Ajay,
Are you sure this is developer account ? or its 30 day trail account. Both are different.
plz help me i am getting error with 3 jar files ,where i can find correct jar files
An error occurred while collecting items to be installedsession context was:(profile=epp.package.java, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,com.salesforce.ide.api,24.0.0.201202291629.MD5 hash is not as expected. Expected: 7251ab037ae632a5a9835c7c07210451 and found 77e46ace5965cf0623d63463f48d5394.Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,com.salesforce.ide.core,24.0.0.201202291629.MD5 hash is not as expected. Expected: 44db36699ca7fdd38917fced4e63c3b3 and found 87fc7476cb4c76ea40b8539e2a8cc233.Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,com.salesforce.ide.documentation,24.0.0.201202291629.MD5 hash is not as expected. Expected: 6d87eb2e76e7e19f7b709682e5272dfc and found 45ba7db9e0ef40bc5cc1a346cbac500f.
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An error occurred while collecting items to be installedsession context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,com.salesforce.ide.documentation,24.0.0.201202291629.MD5 hash is not as expected. Expected: 6d87eb2e76e7e19f7b709682e5272dfc and found 573aece0e3cabbd49b8c15eb833f5274.Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,com.salesforce.ide.api,24.0.0.201202291629.MD5 hash is not as expected. Expected: 7251ab037ae632a5a9835c7c07210451 and found a0c3c4377b0bc7fc6396cdee4abb179c.
hi friends  i have problem with force.com IDE. here is the error
An error occurred while collecting items to be installedsession context was:(profile=epp.package.jee, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.engine.phases.Collect, operand=, action=).Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,com.salesforce.ide.documentation,24.0.0.201202291629.MD5 hash is not as expected. Expected: 6d87eb2e76e7e19f7b709682e5272dfc and found 573aece0e3cabbd49b8c15eb833f5274.Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,com.salesforce.ide.api,24.0.0.201202291629.MD5 hash is not as expected. Expected: 7251ab037ae632a5a9835c7c07210451 and found a0c3c4377b0bc7fc6396cdee4abb179c.Â
hello sir,
i am trying to create a new force project using my id and password with the token number. But when I click to next it shows error
Unable to fetch organisation “my id”
Please help me .
Hi Puneet,
Are you selecting correct type of organization? like sandbox or production?
This error comes when there is internet connection problem or username does not exist.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/76nkolv9i91r/n/eclipse.zip
Download this eclipse .zip file its already have force.com IDE by default.
Hi,
I installed the Force.com IDE standalone where i didn’t find the new project.It only shows the eclipse provisioning.Plz help me.
Hi,
I have installed Eclipse Juno and trying to add the Salesforce.com IDE to it. When I try to add using the URL: “http://www.adnsandbox.com/tools/ide/install/“ the software throws an error as below:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found. Software being installed: Force.com IDE 25.0.0.201206181021 (com.salesforce.ide.feature.feature.group 25.0.0.201206181021) Missing requirement: Force.com IDE 25.0.0.201206181021 (com.salesforce.ide.feature.feature.group 25.0.0.201206181021) requires ‘org.eclipse.update.ui 0.0.0’ but it could not be found
Any on this will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Debashis
I am facing same problem. cant install force.com IDE in Eclipse Juno(4.2). Even i am not able to upgrade api from version 24 to 25 in Eclipse 3.6 (Java developers) in Window 7 64 bit.
Hi,
Please visit this URL, it will help you to solve your problem:
http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/General-Development/Install-Eclipse-Juno-4-2-with-Force-com-IDE/m-p/463845#M72230
I have copied the missing jar file from previous version of eclipse to Eclipse juno and then i was able to install the plugin. However i am stuck with new problem. Eclipse loads fine when i have no project or one small project in workspace but as i download all my projects in workspace, it does not load and stucks with loading com.salesforce.ide.core . any suggestions for it?
i have the same problem with the login. I am having dev account, and i ve appended the security token too but it says invalid username or pass or user locked out… what does it maen?
Hi..
Login to salesforce and see if you are getting any error message at bottom of your user.
It will clear exact error you are getting.
I can login but only in eclipse its giving this error.
Hey keerthan were you able to find the solution for your error? I am getting the same thing, its driving me nuts!
is there any way to run these salesforce plugin menu items from the command line. Or where is the source to the salesforce eclipse plugin? we’d like to run “force->refresh from server” from the command line and also force a build from the command line.
Hi Ralph, I DOnt think that its possible. Eclipse plugins are not exposed for command line operation. My suggestion us to use ANT migration tool. Package.XML already present so you can use existing structure of eclipse. This is perfect solution in our case. Try searching ant tool in this blog. You will find article for that.
Hi JitendraZaa, thanks so much!
We already use Ant for the push. But we need to create the package file and all the profiles and classes and pages for a subset of our project. (similar to the way changeset works)
But the only way that we see to create the profile files is through the salesforce eclipse plugin.
This is a very painful process because we’d like to automate this and we need to manually “refresh from server” and “refresh” manually in eclipse in order to prepare for the ant build scripts.
Thanks for answering!
Jeetu Sir ur awesome.. I was hitting my head out in google for hrs but i finally figured out in ur blog. Thanks 🙂
Hi Jitendra,
I am trying to to add plugins for force.com ide
I am getting some errors please resolve
Hi,
After installing force.com plugin, when clicked on “new force.com project”, new project window not opening.
please help me.
Hi Jitendra, I think now we cannot add the salesforce plugin to eclipse because that repository is not found, so is there any other alternate solution for this while I still use the eclipse IDE because it is not recognizing sfdx commands