App Deployment13% of the exam
Change sets: connections, components and deployment
When a change set can move metadata (affiliated orgs, authorized connections), how outbound and inbound change sets are built, uploaded, validated and deployed, and why components go missing, hidden or rolled back.
Given a use case, demonstrate knowledge, viability, and troubleshooting when using change sets.
~7 min read · 9 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Decide whether change sets can work at all: affiliated orgs only, and only along authorized connections.
- Build an outbound change set with every dependent component and field, and fix one after upload.
- Predict how an inbound deployment behaves: one transaction, Apex tests in production, 75% coverage.
- Use Validate and quick deploy to de-risk a scheduled release, and know what Validate can't test.
- Troubleshoot what arrives wrong: hidden tabs, unfiled reports, inactive flows, deletions and renames.
Key terms: deployment connection (the link between two affiliated orgs); outbound change set (built and uploaded in the source org); inbound change set (received and deployed in the target org); validation (a test deployment that commits nothing); quick deploy (a shortened deployment for a successfully validated change set).
Key facts
Who can connect
- Detail
- Only orgs affiliated with the same production org
Connection vs permission
- Detail
- Each org must be authorized to send and receive
Size
- Detail
- Up to 10,000 files, 400 MB total, about 5,000 components
After upload
- Detail
- Closed: can't edit or recall; clone to change
Expiry
- Detail
- Outbound change sets expire six months after upload
Object without fields
- Detail
- Deploys an empty object; each field must be added
Deletions and renames
- Detail
- Not possible with change sets
Apex tests
- Detail
- All local tests run in production when Apex is included; not automatic in sandboxes
Rollback
- Detail
- Single transaction: any failure rolls back everything
Coverage
- Detail
- 75% for production; not enforced in sandbox or Developer Edition
Tabs
- Detail
- Hidden unless profiles set visibility (Professional Edition excepted)
Sources for this section (6)
- Why can't two unrelated production orgs exchange change sets?
- When does an uploaded outbound change set expire, and what happens then?
- What limits apply to one outbound change set?
- Why must you activate a flow by hand after it arrives in a target org?
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