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Illuminated Cloud User Guide

Illuminated Cloud is a powerful Salesforce integrated development environment (IDE) delivered as a plugin for JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, and WebStorm IDEs.

Illuminated Cloud brings modern IDE features such as intelligent code completion, source code navigation, refactoring, and real-time static code analysis to Salesforce developers alongside Salesforce-specific tools for metadata management, anonymous Apex and SOQL/SOSL query execution, and debug log analysis.

This user guide will help developers—whether already familiar with JetBrains' IDEs or new to these powerful tools—to make the most of Illuminated Cloud and the host JetBrains IDE. This guide will continue to be updated with new content and topics as Illuminated Cloud evolves to include new features and improvements. Feedback on the guide is welcomed and can be provided via the public issue tracker using the label documentation.

Contents

• Installing Illuminated Cloud
• Upgrading from Illuminated Cloud 1
• Updating Illuminated Cloud to the Latest Version
• Managing Your Illuminated Cloud License
• Configuring Network Access
  • Configuring the IDE to Use a Proxy Server
  • Configuring the IDE to Accept Substitute SSL Certificates
• Configuring IDE Features
• Configuring Application Settings
• Configuring Connections
• Creating Projects
  • Creating Metadata Format Salesforce Projects from Scratch
  • Creating Source Format Salesforce Projects from Scratch
  • Creating Projects from Existing Source Files
  • Creating Projects from Files in Version Control
• Generating Offline Symbol Tables
• Managing Metadata
  • Subscribing to Metadata
  • Creating Metadata
  • Specifying the Scope for Bulk Metadata Operations
  • Deploying Metadata
  • Retrieving Metadata
  • Removing Metadata