The Change Management tab uses source tracking to automatically track metadata files in
your org. However, when you require the flexibility to include additional metadata files that
source tracking hasn’t pulled automatically, you can add metadata manually.
Required Editions
Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance,
Unlimited, and Developer Editions
User Permissions Needed
To add metadata manually:
Customize Application
Consider adding metadata manually for these cases.
Source tracking doesn’t support the metadata file, so it isn’t listed on the Change
Management tab. See Metadata Coverage for the list of metadata types
supported by source tracking.
Your development environment is shared, and another teammate has already committed a file
that you also want to include in your work item commit. If the metadata hasn’t changed in your
environment since your teammate’s commit, it doesn’t automatically appear in your changes
list.
You want to commit files that were changed before source tracking was enabled in your
environment.
Note You can’t manually add metadata that’s already on the Change Management tab, and the
original operation type (CHANGE or ADD) remains unchanged.
From the DX Inspector panel, open the Change Management tab.
Click + .
Select a metadata type from the dropdown.
Search by file name or last modified by to narrow your search results.
Select the metadata files that you want to add.
Click Add.
The file appears on the Change Management tab with the operation type MANUAL, ready for you to
include in your next commit.
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