About
About Sextant
Sextant is a Chrome extension for people who work inside Salesforce orgs every day and are tired of finding out where a piece of text came from by hand.
Why it exists
It began with a recurring task: a ticket quoting a translated string, and no way to get from that string to the metadata behind it. In Setup you have to work backwards, one component at a time, and a multilingual org multiplies the work by every language it uses.
A sextant does not move the ship. It tells you exactly where you are from what you can see. That is Sextant's job too: getting you from the words on the screen to the component, its API name, its translations and its history, without leaving the page.
What it is
- A single-purpose tool to find, understand, change and track the metadata behind what a Salesforce org shows: labels, fields, picklist values, Custom Labels and their translations.
- Local-first by design. There is no server, no account and no telemetry. Sextant works with the Salesforce session you already have and keeps its data in your browser profile.
- Its full name, as the Chrome Web Store lists it, is Sextant — Salesforce Metadata & Translations. Everywhere else it is simply Sextant.
- Built and tested like a product: an automated test suite that runs before every release, a release pipeline with published hashes and a software bill of materials, a public privacy policy and security policy, and an interactive demo that runs the real code against a fictional org.
Who makes it
Made and published by Manuel Roldán Pérez.
Independence
Sextant is an independent product. It is not made, endorsed, sponsored or supported by Salesforce, Inc., and uses no Salesforce logo or brand asset. Salesforce and Lightning are trademarks of Salesforce, Inc., used only to describe what Sextant works with.
Source code
The source code is not published. The public repository holds what an evaluator needs instead: the documentation and the policies, the changelog, each release's evidence (its hashes, a software bill of materials and the permission and network diff), and the issue tracker for bug reports and requests.
Public repository: github.com/ManuelRP15/Sextant
Versions
The current version is 1.1.1. Changelog
Contact
- Support:
- support@
usesextant.dev - Security reports:
- security@
usesextant.dev