Promote Individual Work Items from a Stage

Move approved work items forward without waiting for the entire stage to be ready. Select specific work items for promotion, while others remain in their current stage until they’re ready.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience in Professional (API access required), Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
Not Available in: Government Cloud Plus. Contact your Salesforce account executive for more details.
Not available in: EU Operating Zone. EU Operating zone is a special paid offering that provides an enhanced level of data residency commitment. Lifecycle Center is supported in orgs in the EU that aren’t part of EU OZ, per standard product terms and conditions.
User Permissions Needed
To promote individual work items: Lifecycle Center Deployment Manager
  1. Go to the Pipelines tab, and identify the stage that contains the work items you want to promote.
  2. On that pipeline stage, click Dropdown icon, and then select Select Work Items to Promote.
    Custom promotion option in the pipeline stage dropdown list.
  3. In the Custom Promotion window, click Prepare for each work item you want to promote.
    This action creates a branch and change request for your work items.
    Custom promotion window with ready to promote work items
  4. Click Next.
  5. If Lifecycle Center detects no conflicts or shared components, select the changes and the Apex tests to run, then promote the changes.
  6. If Lifecycle Center detects a dependency, select one of these options: