Extend NPSP and EDA with Second-Generation Packaging

Building packages that extend (depend on) NPSP and EDA using second-generation packaging involves some unique complications. Both NPSP and EDA have install-time dependencies on Record Type org features: an Account Record Type must exist in order for the packages to install.

When building first-generation packages, both NPSP and EDA serve this need by installing unpackaged Record Types stored in their unpackaged/pre folders. However, second-generation packaging doesn’t allow interactive access to its build orgs, where package versions are created.

We recommend that projects which extend EDA or NPSP with a second-generation package use scratch org definition files to satisfy these Record Type dependencies. You can do this by creating a new org definition file in orgs, based on your existing org definitions, and adding to it an objectSettings section. We’ll call this file orgs/build.json.

For NPSP, use:

"settings": {
    /* Your project's settings are here */
},
"objectSettings": {
    "account": {
        "defaultRecordType": "default"
    }
}

and for EDA, use:

"settings": {
    /* Your project's settings are here */
},
"objectSettings": {
    "account": {
        "defaultRecordType": "Administrative"
    }
}

This satisfies EDA’s requirement for a specific Record Type name.

You’ll also add to your `cumulusci.yml`:

orgs:
    scratch:
        build:
            config_file: orgs/build.json

Then, run your 2GP builds against the org `build`:

$ cci flow run dependencies --org build
$ cci flow run release_2gp_beta --org build

This will result in the creation of default Record Types in the build org, allowing NPSP to be installed. Meanwhile, your other scratch orgs will continue to use the NPSP or EDA default Record Types, installed by CumulusCI’s dependency-management system and reflecting the configuration of the subscriber orgs into which your package will ultimately be installed.