Delivering changes with change sets

Although a lot can be done to make change sets more appealing for big customizations, they are a tool highly appreciated by developers and administrators as they easily let metadata be deployed from sandbox to sandbox until production, following the sandbox flow architecture we saw in Chapter 17, The Sandbox Model.

To set up and use change sets to deploy changes between orgs under the same production org, here are the requisite steps:

1. Configure a deployment connection between the source and destination orgs (basically, the destination org is enabled to receive change sets coming from a given origin org).

2. Create an outbound change set in the source organization.

3. Add changed metadata items to the change set.

4. Upload the outbound change set to the destination org.

5. Validate the inbound change set on the destination org.

6. Deploy the change set on the destination org.

7. Monitor the deployment.

8. Repeat steps 3 to 7 if any...