Destructive Changes Using Workbench

29 Mar 2023

These notes are a worked example based on a Salesforce help article, called Deleting Components from an Organization. The process is also described in this Salesforce StackExchange article and this SalesforceBen article.

Create two files destructiveChanges.xml and package.xml and add content structured similarly to that shown below.
Select the two files just created, right-click, and Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder.
Authenticate into Workbench (workbench.developerforce.com) and the specific Salesforce org you are deleting components from.
In Workbench, navigate to migration > Deploy, and select the zipped folder.
Select Rollback on Error and Single Package, RunSpecifiedTests in the dropdown, and type the name of any test classes you are deleting into the Run Tests text box.
On the next page select Deploy.
The process will take a few seconds. When complete, if successful, it will look like the screenshot below.

Step 1:

destructiveChanges.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<package xmlns=http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata>
    <types>
        <members>yc_Test_Score_Trigger</members>
        <name>ApexTrigger</name>
    </types>
    <types>
        <members>yc_Test_Score_Trigger_Handler</members>
        <members>yc_Test_Score_Trigger_Test</members>
        <name>ApexClass</name>
    </types>
</package>

package.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<package xmlns=http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata>
     <version>56.0</version>
</package>

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