title: Copying Salesforce App and data into development environment
body: <p>The Theatre department in the University I work for is currently using Salesforce (PatronManager app) to sell tickets. My team is currently looking to leverage the Salesforce API to display a comprehensive list of performances by date on our mobile application and, possibly later on, provide users the ability to purchase tickets directly through the app.</p>
  
  <p>Since we obviously don't want to mess around with the data on our live implementation, I set up a development account on Salesforce. Is there a simple way to "dump" the Custom Object schema as well as the data into a file that I can easily import into an new app on the development account (similar to what I would do with a traditional database), or even copy the entire app, along with its data to development.</p>
  
  <p>I apologize in advance for this newbie question. I just started using Salesforce this week, and most of my time with it has been playing with the API.</p>
  
  <p>Scott</p>