As development teams embrace continuous integration and multiple sandboxes within their environment stack, the complexity of keeping team member's sandboxes on the same codebase becomes increasingly difficult when they all need to implement adds, changes, and especially deletes that cannot be deployed via the Metadata API. Join us to learn how roundCorner 'scratched their own itch' to address this problem, and enabled development teams to increase visibility into the 'current state' of any sandbox in their stack and roll-up all changes needed to prepare for a worry-free deploy to production.

1. Managing Manual Metadata
for Easier Deployments
Philip Nelson, roundCorner, Development Manager
@almostthor

3. All about roundCorner
We enable our customer’s missions
by imagining and delivering
the world’s best Nonprofit CRM
native on Salesforce.com

6. The “Big Ten”
1
Dev 1
(Dev Sandbox)
8
Hotfix
(Dev Sandbox)
2
Dev 2
(Dev Sandbox)
5
Integration
(Config Sandbox)
3
6
Release
(Full Sandbox)
7
Staging
(Config Sandbox)
10
Production
Dev 3
(Dev Sandbox)
9
Training
(Config Sandbox)
4
Dev n
(Dev Sandbox)

7. Development lifecycle
Master Build
Develop Build
Dev(1…n)
(Dev Sandbox)
Release Build
Integration
(Config Sandbox)
Feature Build
Master Build
Release
(Full Sandbox)
Staging
(Config Sandbox)
Hotfix Build
Production
Hotfix
(Dev Sandbox)
Master Build
Develop Build
Develop Build
Develop Build

8. Gotchas
BUILD FAILED!
<http://jenkins.umn.edu/job/Production/ws/
build.xml>:147: FAILURES:!
Error: objects/Contact.object(37611,20):No more
than 10 columns may be specified in
lookupPhoneDialogsAdditionalFields!

9. Gotchas
BUILD FAILED!
<http://jenkins.umn.edu/job/Production/ws/
build.xml>:147: FAILURES:!
SendEmail failed. First exception on row 0; first
error: SINGLE_EMAIL_LIMIT_EXCEEDED, Failed to send
email: []!

10. Gotchas
BUILD FAILED!
<http://jenkins.umn.edu/job/Production/ws/
build.xml>:147: FAILURES:!
Error: Failed to process the request successfully.
Cause(UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION): UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION: An
unexpected error occurred. Please include this
ErrorId if you contact support: 1531762744-11073
(-1407352676)!

11. Deploy checklists
Microsoft Excel
Google Drive

12. Vision
• Single source of truth
• Transparency
• History tracking
• Automation
• Team collaboration

13. Manifests’ Workflow
Dev Sandbox
Integration Sandbox
Change A1
Change A2
Change B1
Change C1
Manifest
Change B2
Change C2
Production
Change A3
Manifest
Change B3
Change C3

14. Demo lifecycle
Philip’s Dev
Sandbox
Integration
Ronak’s Dev
Sandbox
Production

15. Demo

16. Recommendations
Focus on developing a system that:
• Provides a single source of truth
• Answers questions about the current state of an org:
• What do I need to do to keep my sandbox in sync?
• Has a given change been made in an org?
• What changes have not been migrated?
• Tracks who logged changes
• Handles sandbox refreshes

17. Philip Nelson
Development Manager,
@almostthor

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