SandboxPostCopy : featured Post Refresh Activity

Hi Folks,

Today I am going to discuss about a very beautiful features Salesforce just released. This features to make your sandbox environment business ready, automate data manipulation or business logic tasks.

While creating/refreshing any sandbox from you may need to run any logic just after completion of refresh so now it is possible using this feature called "SandboxPostCopy" interface.

Here I am taking an example where I need to create some couple of records of an opportunity object just after completing with refresh activity.

I should have a class in production as below

global class createOpportunity implements SandboxPostCopy {
  global void runApexClass(SandboxContext context) {
        // write your logic to create opportunity
     }
  }

then while refreshing/creating sandbox you need to select this class to be executed as below:

Thanks for reading.!!

Trailhead Trail: Navigate the Salesforce Advantage

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Thanks everyone for reading the post.