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Salesforce.com customization handbook

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Salesforce.com customization handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Salesforce.com Customization Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding Change Sets and their types


Change Sets are containers that are used to send customizations or elements from one organization to another in Salesforce. These containers can only hold metadata, which means you can only send those changes or customizations that you made through the setup menu. You cannot send records from one organization to another using Change Sets. Both the organizations must have a deployment connection between them, for example, production and Sandbox created for the same organization.

Change Sets are of the following two types:

  • Outbound Change Sets

  • Inbound Change Sets

Outbound Change Sets

Outbound Change Sets are those Change Sets that are used to send customizations from one organization to another. For example, we have added a new custom field on an account object in Sandbox named Unique Code, and now we want to send it to the production organization. In this case, we can use the Outbound Change Sets to send this customization from Sandbox to production.

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