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Guides on retrieving and deploying specific metadata types
Guides on retrieving and deploying specific metadata types

Gearset's guidelines on "how to" retrieve and deploy various metadata types via 'Compare and deploy' feature


Account team roles - retrieve and deploy
'Big objects' - retrieve and deploy
Case team roles
Community pages and communities builder - retrieve and deploy
Custom links and buttons - retrieve and deploy
Custom metadata type access and custom settings access - retrieve and deploy
"Custom metadata" type (new items) - retrieve and deploy
Compact Layout assignment - retrieve and deploy
Custom settings - deploying via Data deployment tool in Gearset
ForecastingType metadata - retrieve and deploy
Digital Experiences aka Communities - retrieve and deploy
Surveys - retrieve and deploy
Renamed label of a standard object - retrieve and deploy
Precision deployments - how to get started
Einstein Analytics - retrieve and deploy
Email alerts - retrieve and deploy
EmailServicesFunctions - retrieve and deploy
Expression sets - retrieve and deploy
External data sources with Files Connect
Field history tracking - retrieve and deploy
Flows - retrieve and deploy
Flows - how to activate Flows on deployment to production
Fundraising standard objects, such as "GiftTransaction" and "GiftCommitment" - retrieve and deploy
Lightning record page assignment - retrieve and deploy
Permission sets, Permission set groups, and Permission set assignments - retrieve and deploy
Profiles and their components - retrieve and deploy
Knowledge articles - retrieve and deploy
Lightning page and Lightning page assignment - retrieve and deploy
Lightning Web Components (LWC) - retrieve and deploy
Multi-currencies - retrieve and deploy
New custom field with its field-level security settings - retrieve and deploy
Permission changes for Custom Apps - retrieve and deploy
Picklist changes on standard fields - retrieve and deploy
Precision deployment of Apex code - retrieve and deploy
Profiles - how to deploy various Profile components
Public Group - retrieve and deploy
Record types - retrieve and deploy
Reports and Report Folders - retrieve and deploy
Standard Value Set - retrieve and deploy
Search Layouts - retrieve and deploy
Custom field - retrieve and deploy
State and country or territory picklists - retrieve and deploy
System permission 'Waive Multi-Factor Authentication for Exempt Users' - retrieve and deploy
Translations - retrieve and deploy
Field dependencies - retrieve and deploy