Summary

This chapter concludes the technical part of this long journey. We have learned a lot about Salesforce platform customization and, with this chapter, we acquired the basics for deploying the changes we make in our daily work in the orgs of our company or those of our customers. With change sets, we learned how to move changes from one sandbox to another, and from a sandbox to production, creating deploy connections between orgs that rely on the same production org. If we want to deploy across orgs that don't reference the same production org (for example, between Developer Edition orgs) or simply if we want to package a configuration that we want to store for future use, packages are what you need. Finally, we used packages with the Workbench tool to let Metadata APIs retrieve a package from an org and deploy it in another org with a few simple clicks.

You now have everything you need to bring your customizations from org to org within your new Salesforce project where...