All the world’s an org, as a great thespian once said, or possibly a Salesforce visionary. Your production org has traditionally served as the hub of this universe, and you have done the majority of your development inside of a sandbox or production org. Your world is somewhat different if you are an AppExchange partner. However, you can use the tools that were introduced in earlier blogs as well, so keep reading. Let’s examine the potential workflow for your development team under the change set development paradigm by reviewing the package development model.
You are the development lead for a high-tech business that operates quickly. You want to create an internal application for your business in addition to customizing the basic CRM app for your release. The first thing you should do while developing is to make sure you have the most recent snapshot of your production organization. In the org-based architecture, your production org serves as the definitive repository for all of your modifications, configurations, and code.
Whatever you’re building, you eventually produce deployments that are restricted to your production org. As shown in the diagram, updates are created and released using the same deployment even when different teams are working on different development projects. It all fits into one package.xml file.
The organization is seen by your developers and release managers as a jumbled collection of customizations and code. Look at the diagram once more to make your argument clear. The whole deployment covers all modifications to the org and is not restricted to the Time Off Manager app or just the CRM extensions.
With Package Development, Manage Change
- Utilize Package Development to Control Change.
- a modular development process that specifies package dependencies.
- Versioning as a change management tool
- facilitating continuous integration and automated testing.
- improving the effectiveness and agility of the release cycle.
- enhanced version control system (VCS) synchronisation via setup feature change tracking
- Greater detail-oriented visibility and understanding of your production organization’s change management
Conclusion
In this way, when a business’s needs change very frequently, it’s good to use package development model.
Additional Resources
- Salesforce Developers: Package-Based Development Model
- Data Guidelines for LDS
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