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description: Use your preferred local development tools to work on Lifecycle Center work items and commit changes directly to source control. After merging your changes, complete the promotion in Lifecycle Center.
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# Work Outside the Lifecycle Center UI

Use your preferred local development tools to work on Lifecycle Center work items and commit changes directly to source control. After merging your changes, complete the promotion in Lifecycle Center.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience in <strong>Professional</strong> (API access required), <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Not Available in: <strong>Government Cloud Plus</strong>. Contact your Salesforce account executive for more details.</td></tr></tbody><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Not available in: <strong>EU Operating</strong> Zone. EU Operating zone is a special paid offering that provides an enhanced level of data residency commitment. Lifecycle Center <em>is</em> supported in orgs in the EU that aren’t part of EU OZ, per standard product terms and conditions.</td></tr></tbody></table>

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/images/icon_note.png)

Note This feature works differently in Lifecycle Center and DevOps Center (Managed Package). This information pertains to Lifecycle Center. To learn about this feature in DevOps Center (Managed Package), see [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.").

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d35302e116 ">To work outside and commit change to the Lifecycle Center source control:</td>

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Create a work item in Lifecycle Center. See [Create and Assign Work Items](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_create_assign_work_items.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use work items to track the progress of changes related to specific objectives, such as user stories or issue fixes. Work items help teams manage changes and releases by providing visibility into the status and progress of changes.").

1. In Lifecycle Center, select an existing work item.
2. Change the work item status to **In Progress**.
    
    Lifecycle Center creates a feature branch in your repository and displays the branch URL.
    
    ![Tip](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/images/icon_tip.png)
    
    Tip Alternatively, you can create a branch manually from the first pipeline stage's branch. Name the branch using your work item number. For example, WI-000015.
3. Open your local terminal or IDE, and check out the feature branch.
4. Develop and test changes locally.
5. Commit your changes, and push the feature branch to your remote repository.
6. In your source control repository, create a pull request (PR) from your feature branch to the first pipeline stage branch (Integration).
7. Review, approve, and merge the pull request.
    
    Your changes may take a few moments to appear in Lifecycle Center. For metadata and data changes, wait for Lifecycle Center to sync your remote changes before acting on related objects. For non-metadata changes, such as updates to the .forceignore file, you can continue with the promotion immediately.
8. In Lifecycle Center, open the work item, and change its status to **Ready to Promote**.

Your Deployment Manager can now go to the Lifecycle Center Pipelines tab and complete the promotion. See [External Merges](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_handle_external_merges.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Lifecycle Center detects external changes that you merge directly into a stage’s source control branch. ").