At DreamHouse Realty (DHR), a Platform App Builder built a new Property_Inspection__c custom object that...

Change sets are Salesforce ' s native declarative mechanism for transferring metadata between connected environments, including from a sandbox to its associated production organization. Salesforce ' s current deployment documentation specifies a two-stage process: create and upload an outbound change set from the source sandbox, then access and deploy the corresponding inbound change set in the target production org. Change sets can contain metadata components such as custom fields, page layouts, Apex classes, flows, and other supported customizations. A sandbox refresh operates in the opposite direction by copying production configuration into a sandbox; it does not refresh production from development. Manually recreating components is inefficient and creates configuration-drift risk. Managed packages are principally intended for packaged distribution and are unnecessary for straightforward lifecycle deployment between related sandbox and production environments.

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