How do I move custom metadata records with changes?
Select the custom metadata type you want to add to your outbound change set. Click Add to Change Set….To add custom metadata records:
- Select the custom metadata type’s label from the available component types, for example, Threat Tier .
- Select the records to add.
How do you deploy custom metadata records?
Deploy Custom Metadata Type Records
- Add the ‘Custom Metadata Type’ component to the change set. Note the component type is Custom Metadata Type in the drop-down and select the ‘Constants’.
- Add the custom field. Now add the field called Value from constants object.
- Here’s the additional step. Add the data.
How to protect custom metadata types and Records unit?
You set the visibility of custom metadata types to public, protected, or package protected in your scratch or developer org where you’re designing your app and creating custom metadata types that you will use in an application. Then you bundle your app and your custom metadata types into a package.
Do you need to test custom metadata types?
Because your org’s functionality doesn’t rely on specific accounts or opportunities, you don’t need to write tests for them. But when you deal with records that affect the way an org behaves, such is the case with custom metadata types, you do want to test those records.
What is affected by restrict access to custom metadata types?
Functionality that runs in system mode, such as Apex, is not affected by the Restrict access to custom metadata types org preference. In user mode, functionality such as Visualforce Components, Visualforce Email templates, and Aura, is run with respect to the user’s permissions and sharing of records.
How are custom metadata types protected in Salesforce?
If a custom metadata type is protected, it can only be accessed by other components that are in the same namespace. However, with second-generation packaging, you can create multiple packages in the same namespace, and this adds another level of protection, which is called package protection.