Delay Field Deployment (New)

The Delay section of the Field view side panel provides fine-grained control of field deployment relative to record deployment. The feature allows you to deploy a record with a temporary value for a field then update the field with the actual value at a later time of your choosing.

To delay deployment of a field:

  1. From the Next-Gen Data Set Editor, in the Object view, click the Fields tab.
  2. In the row containing the field whose properties you desire to adjust, click the Field view (gear) icon.
  3. In the Field view side panel, select either After Insert (delay on insert) or After Relationship (deploy last) in the Delay section.
  4. With After Insert selected, Prodly inserts records using the temporary value you specify in Temporary value for this field during deployment, then defers deployment of the actual data in this field until after the Deploy After Child Relationship data set object deploys. Use this feature to overcome Salesforce constraints that prohibit inserts that contain certain field values. For example, Salesforce does not allow deploying active contracts. Temporarily deploying the record as a draft contract, then immediately changing the contract to active allows for deployment.
    1. Enter a Temporary value to use during record deployment.
    2. In the Deploy After Child Relationship picklist, select a data set object to instruct Prodly to deploy the actual field value immediately after the data set object deploys or leave the selection blank to deploy immediately after the record deploys.

For date and time values, you must enter them in these formats:

  • For date: yyyy-MM-dd (for example 2018-05-10)
  • For date/time: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSZ (for example 2018-05-10T02:59:00.000+0000)
  • For time: HH:mm:ss.SSSZ (for example 02:59:00.000+0000)