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description: When you choose to work in a connected development environment, you perform much of your development and configuration tasks directly in a Developer or Developer Pro sandbox with source tracking enabled. We also support scratch orgs, which have source tracking enabled by default.
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# Work in a Connected Dev Environment

When you choose to work in a connected development environment, you perform much of your development and configuration tasks directly in a Developer or Developer Pro sandbox with source tracking enabled. We also support scratch orgs, which have source tracking enabled by default.

1. In Work Items, click the ID of a work item to open it.
2. Because you want to perform your development work in your developer org, select **I Want to Develop and Commit My Changes to the Work Item Feature Branch from DevOps Center Using a Connected Development Environment**, then select your development environment from the list.
    
    Development environments were added to the project during setup to make them available for team members. During setup, each environment has a nickname to make it easier to recognize. To begin work, select the development environment you want to use for this work item. If you don’t see your development environment listed, ask your team manager or Salesforce admin to add it.
3. Click **Proceed**.
4. Click the Details tab to view the description for the work item scope.
    
    If the work item is unassigned, assign it to yourself.
    
    ![Work Item Details tab with a Subject, Description, and Assigned To fields populated.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/devops_center/images/work-item-details.png)
5. In the Changes tab, click the dev environment nickname to open it.
    
    ![Work Item Changes tab](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/devops_center/images/work-item-login-dev-env.png)
    
    If you haven’t yet logged into this development environment from within DevOps Center, complete the login process, then click the environment nickname link again to open the development environment.

After you complete your development work, pull changes from the development environment.

#### See Also

- [Pull Changes from the Development Environment](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_work_item_pull_changes.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Because the development environment has source tracking enabled, DevOps Center knows what files have been added, changed, or removed. When you pull changes, DevOps Center displays a list of all files that it has identified as changed. These changes aren’t associated with the work item until you select and commit them to the source control repository.")
- [Work Outside of DevOps Center (Managed Package)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_work_item_work_unconnected.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "After a work item is created, you can choose to do your development work entirely outside DevOps Center (without connecting to a development environment). After changes are merged in the source control system, the promotion is completed in DevOps Center or by using Salesforce CLI.")
- [_Salesforce DX Developer Guide_: Enable Source Tracking in Sandboxes](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.sfdx_dev.meta/sfdx_dev/sfdx_setup_enable_source_tracking_sandboxes.htm)