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Why is the deployment summary item count different from the selected item count?
Why is the deployment summary item count different from the selected item count?
Valerio Chang avatar
Written by Valerio Chang. Updated over a week ago

As a new user of Gearset, we make come to expect the two counts to match. The two numbers are

  • the Selected items in the comparison results page, and

  • the changed / new / deleted item count in the deployment summary

However this assumption is not true due to the way that the Salesforce metadata API counts items versus how Gearset is counting them.

Gearset decomposes the metadata into individually deployable parts. For example, one single profile in the metadata API can be decomposed into thousands of permissions that are individually changed. For example, a single Gearset metadata item of Permissions for object.field can change multiple Salesforce Metadata API profiles in the same deployment.

Therefore there is no guarantee that the numbers are identical as the reference different ways of counting metadata.

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