Document manual steps required for deployment within Work Item

[johp-lb-dk]

Hi,

We need to be able to attach "notes" (manuel step) to a workitem. It might not be possible to perform alle deployment through the standard functionality in Devops center.

[kfidelak94]

Thanks for this feedback. We've heard this request before and think it's a great idea. It's on our roadmap and we'll be considering for a future release.

[uip-robot-zz]

This issue has been linked to a new work item: W-10757755

[mslade24]

@kfidelak94 The lack of manual steps causes a lot of failures for refreshing sandboxes, both at the dev sandbox level and the pipeline itself after a refresh. The pipeline is even more critical because you only get one chance to deploy the in progress changes.

Not only do we need to capture the manual steps, but they need to be aggregated and displayed for both deployments and refreshes before the refresh/deployment starts so the user can say ok, those are done, before the refresh steps happen.

I would also like to see a field to tell us when "Before Deployment", "After Deployment" with a criticality level to identify breaking steps vs manual layout or permission set changes. The before deployment would show before the deployment, and the after deployment would show after.

[msteinersalesforce]

If you are documenting about document pre and post deployment steps. What I do currently is log those in the description field of the work item. It's a rich text area field so it supports bullets, indentation, etc.