Compare and deploy metadata
Guides on compare and deploying metadata using Gearset
By Sam and 26 others27 authors150 articles
- Running your first comparison
- Exploring comparison results
- Where are subcomponents (like Custom fields), and their dependencies, displayed in the comparison results?
- Getting started with the Profile and Permissions visualizer
- Suggestions in Compare and deploy
- Running your first deployment
- What is Express Deploy?
- Saved comparison pairs
- Comparison history
- Draft deployments
- Validated packages
- Cloning deployment packages
- Combine multiple deployments into one single deployment package
- Comparing managed package metadata with Gearset
- Create pull requests from "Deployment summary" page
- Metadata deployment history
- Deploy package straight to target
- How do I change the API version that Gearset uses?
- How can I change the deployment package before deploying?
- How does Gearset handle Salesforce metadata API releases?
- Splitting a complex deployment into stages
- Using environment variables in Gearset
- Using regex in custom metadata filters
- Viewing metadata in Salesforce from a comparison
- Why is the rollback item count different from the deployment selected item count?
- Why is the 'Changed on' or 'Changed by' sometimes incorrect?
- What metadata types does Gearset support?
- Which metadata differences are the same between different Gearset comparisons
- Getting started with Flow Navigator
- Getting started with the Lightning Page view
- Rolling back a deployment made with Compare and deploy
- Configuring comparisons
- What does Gearset count as a managed package component?
- Excluding unlocked packages from the filter
- Why 'Unknown' is sometimes displayed as the 'Changed by' value in the results table
- Comparison date range
- How to deploy Account team roles
- How to deploy 'Big objects'
- How to deploy Community pages and communities builder
- How to deploy buttons, links, and actions
- How to deploy Custom metadata type access and custom settings access
- How to deploy "Custom metadata" (new items)
- How to deploy Compact Layout assignments
- How to deploy Custom Fields
- How to deploy Digital Experiences (aka Communities)
- How to deploy Einstein Analytics
- How to deploy Email Alerts
- How to deploy EmailServicesFunctions
- How to deploy Expression sets
- How to deploy Field dependencies
- How to deploy Field history tracking
- How to deploy ForecastingType metadata
- How to deploy Flows
- How to deploy Global Actions
- How to deploy Knowledge articles
- How to deploy Lightning pages and Lightning page assignments
- How to deploy Lightning Web Components (LWC) with Gearset
- How to deploy Multi-currencies
- How to deploy a new Custom field with its field-level security settings
- How to deploy Permission changes for Custom Apps
- How to deploy Permission sets, Permission set groups, and Permission set assignments
- How to deploy picklist changes on Standard and Custom Field
- How to get started with Precision Deployments
- How to deploy Precision deployment of Apex code
- How to retrieve and deploy profiles and their components
- How to deploy Record types
- How to deploy Reports and Report Folders
- How to deploy Search Layouts
- How to deploy Standard value set metadata
- How to deploy State and country or territory picklists
- How to deploy Translations
- Translation Workbench - how to deploy changes made in the 'Override' section
- How to deploy a renamed label of a standard object
- Flows - how to activate Flows when deploying to production
- How to deploy Public Group metadata
- How to deploy Lightning record page assignments
- How to deploy System permission 'Waive Multi-Factor Authentication for Exempt Users'
- How to deploy Surveys
- How to deploy data records of "ProductConfigurationProcedure" object
- How to deploy Fundraising standard objects, such as "GiftTransaction" and "GiftCommitment"
- How to deploy Business process metadata
- How to deploy Platform Events
- How to deploy Organization-Wide Sharing Defaults
- How to deploy "Lead Mapping" also known as Lead Convert Settings
- Why custom labels cannot be filtered
- How to deploy Embedded Service Deployments
- How to deploy email templates with Gearset
- How to delete flows with Gearset
- Why changing an email template's type doesn't apply after a successful deployment
- How to deploy Salesforce Libraries (folders and files) with Gearset
- What is a metadata filter
- Refreshing metadata in Compare and deploy
- Manage custom filters in Compare and deploy
- Manage custom filters in CI jobs
- Comparison sidebar UI and features
- Using regex to filter comparison results
- Using source tracking as a custom filter in Compare and deploy
- "Default CI comparison" metadata filter
- "Default comparison" metadata filter
- "Default Experience Cloud comparison" metadata filter
- "On-demand comparison" metadata filter
- "Default profiles and permission sets comparison" metadata filter
- "Compare all" metadata filter
- Automatically include permissions dependencies in your comparisons
- "Basic comparison" metadata filter