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Validate a Change Set
You can validate a change set without deploying changes. By validating you can view the success or failure messages you receive with an actual deploy.
We recommend starting a validation during off-peak usage time and limiting changes to your org while the validation is in progress. The validation process locks the resources that are being deployed. Changes you make to locked resources or items related to those resources while the validation is in progress can result in errors.
- From Setup, enter Inbound Change Sets in the Quick Find box, then select Inbound Change Sets.
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Click Validate next to the change set you want to
validate.
To review the change set before validating it, click the name of the change set to view its detail page. When ready, click Validate. If the change set has been deleted from its source org, the Validate link isn’t available. If a deployment of the change set is in progress, the Validate link isn’t available until after the deployment completes.
- After the validation completes, click View Results.
If you change a field type from Master-Detail to Lookup or vice versa, the change isn’t supported when using the Validate option to test a deployment. This change isn’t supported for test deployments to avoid data loss or corruption. If a change that isn’t supported for test deployments is included in the deployment package, the test deployment fails and issues an error.
If your deployment package changes a field type from Master-Detail to Lookup or vice versa, you can still validate the changes before you deploy to production. Perform a full deployment to another test sandbox. A full deployment includes a validation of the changes as part of the deployment process.
Change sets that have been successfully validated can qualify for a quick deployment. For more information, see Quick Deployments.
