Publishing the Custom Field from the Sandbox

In this demonstration, we'll publish the custom text field we added to the create and edit opportunity pages.

This is the fourth in a series of demonstrations that show how to create a custom field for importing customer information.

These demonstrations cover:

- Creating a custom field

- Exposing the custom field in application pages

- Testing the custom field

- Publishing the custom field from the sandbox

- Making the custom field available for import

- Viewing the custom field in the import activity mapping

Steps:

1. Let's open the Manage Sandboxes window from the Administration  menu.

   Step 1

2. Click the Administration link.

   Step 2

3. Click the Manage Sandboxes... list item.

   Step 3

4. All we have to do is to select our sandbox and click Publish.

   Step 4

5. Click the cell.

   Step 5

6. Click the Publish button.

   Step 6

7. Yes, we do want to publish to the main line.

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8. Click the Yes button.

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9. We can safely ignore any warnings, because we are adding just one field.

   Step 9

10. Click the OK button.

    Step 10

11. Notice that we're out of the sandbox because there is no sandbox name at the top of the page.

    Step 11

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