To build, deploy or execute a project you must first open it in the Projects Explorer by double-clicking on the project or right-clicking and selecting Open.

On the Execute tab you will see two sections titled Current State of Project Deployments and Project Activity. Current State of Project Deployments section is not available on Partial Deployment Projects or Utility Projects.

The Current State of Project Deployments indicates which environments contain which version of the project. If the project has not been deployed to an environment it will not appear in the list. This provides an easy to access summary of this project's current deployment state across all environments.

The Project Activity identifies all build and deployment requests along with the execution status for each request, whether completed/failed, pending approval, scheduled or in progress. The Workflow Request columns provides details pertaining to the build or deployment request that was submitted. Once a workflow request begins execution the Workflow Execution columns will provide details pertaining to its execution on the target instance. The Figure below describes the status lifecycle of a workflow request and its workflow execution. 

Building a Standard Project

From the Execution tab, click the Build button.

Enter values in the Build Request Form as described in the table below.

Click the Submit Request button to submit the build request.

Deploying a Standard Project

From the Execution tab, click the Deploy button.

Enter values in the Deployment Request Form as described in the table below.

Click the Submit Request button to submit the deployment request.

Building a Partial Deployment Project

Two options available for partial project types.

1. All Files
2. Select Files.

Build All Files option will display the Build request form same as standard project's Build request form. Once submitted, it will perform Populate from SCM operation and adds all new files populated from SCM and all existing files and creates package. The package name is same as Project Version. Build All Files option will be disabled, if you don't have permission to Populate from SCM for the project as it auto populates the files.

Build Selected Files option will display the following Build request form and gives option to select one or more files.

Enter values in the Build Request Form as described in the table below.

Adding Files

To update the files to be a part of this build, enter a portion of the File Name and click Add File(s) button. Files that match value entered will be appended to the list. If no value is entered in Search Files to Add then Add File(s) popup will show up, you can now filter files by entering partial text in Search input, then either Add All files or select some files and use Add Selected button to add selected files. For both cases, files are appended to the list of files in package details.

You can also use Add Changed button to add any files that have changed since the last build.

Alternatively, you can add files from a previous package. Select the Add Files(s) from Package button and the following screen pops up:

You can filter the list of packages by entering a portion of the name and select one of the search options (Starts with, Ends with, Contains, Equals) and press the Search button.  To remove the search criteria, press the Reset button.  Choose the package you would like to add files from by clicking on the Project Version or Package Name link.  The following screen will pop up allowing you to select the files from that package:

Filtering the list of files can be done by entering a portion of the name and clicking the Filter button.  Then only the files containing the filter string will be displayed.

You may append selected files by pressing the Add Selected button or append all the currently filtered files by pressing the Add All button. To return to the Add Files from Package Screen, press the Back to Select Package button. The Cancel button will return you to the Build Request Form. If you use Replace Selected or Replace All, files selected or all files will replace file current added to package.

Note: The revision in the package may be blank for 2 reasons, either the package was created before revisions were tracked or the files is Sources from EBS and not SCM.  If it is sourced from EBS, the build will once again take the file available in EBS and not the file that was built in the package you selected.

Removing Files

To remove files from the list of files to be included in the build, select the files and select Remove from the Selected Files drop down.

Clear Revisions

 Clears the revisions for the files that are selected, go to the Selected Files drop down and choose Clear Revisions. If revision is not present latest file will be retrieved from source control system.

Entering Revisions

On the Build Request Form, you can add revisions for each file you are building.  Currently, these revisions all must be contained by the stream you selected for the build.

You may enter the revision in the text box or click the magnifying glass to look up the revision.  When looking up the revision, the following screen will pop up:

You may enter a filter text which will show those revisions that either the Revision or Commit Message contain the Filter Text.  To select the revision you want, click on the Revision link.

A empty revision will default to the Head revision on the selected stream.

Selecting Files

To help with selecting and unselecting files the Select drop down has the following options:

• All – Selects all the files in the list
• None – Unselects all the files in the list
• Invert - Unselects all the files that are currently selected and selects all the files that are currently unselected.

You may also manually check and uncheck the files with the check box at the start of each row.

Ordering Files

At times, the order of both build and deploy can be important. You can control the order by the sequence of the files in the list. If you need to alter the order, use the Up Button to move the selected row(s) up one row. If multiple rows are selected, the top row is moved up by 1 row, the remaining selected rows are placed right below the highest selected row. Use the Down Button to move the selected row(s) down one row. If multiple rows are selected, the bottom row is moved down by 1 row, the remaining selected rows are placed right above the lowest selected row. Similarly you can use Top and Bottom to move selected row(s) to top or bottom of list.

Submit Request

Click the Submit Request button to submit the build request.

Rebuilding a Package

During course of development this option is very useful as developers will be updating files and refining package over time. You can click Rebuild Package with Same Files icon on project activity screen. This will bring up Build Request Form with release, stream, flexfields, workflow inputs, package and file with revisions selected as per selected version of package. This helps setup build request quickly. Now user can add / remove files or change revisions or clear out revision to fetch latest files prior to submitting request. 

Deploying a Partial Deployment Project

From the Execution tab of a partial deploy project, click the Deploy button.

Enter values in the Deployment Request Form as described in the table below.

By default the Deployment Request Form will populate with the most recently built package. To modify the list of packages to be deployed, click the Select More Packages button and the screen in the figure below will pop up.

You can Search using Package and Project Version names by entering the text and selecting the search option (either Starts with, Ends with, Equals, or Contains) as shown above and clicking the Search button. The search results will appear in the table.

If you would like to add a package to the deployment, click the Red + sign. To remove a package, click the red X. The green check mark indicates that the files have been added. Click the Save button to accept the files, or the Cancel button to cancel the changes.

Finally, to control the order that the packages are deployed, enter the priority values as shown in the Figure below. If the priority is a lower value, it will deploy first. Higher values will deploy later. If they have the same priority, they may deploy at the same time.

If you would like to see the file details for a package, click on the arrow in front of the package:

When you have the set of packages you wish to deploy, click the Submit Request button to submit the deployment request.  Each package will run as a separate workflow request and workflow execution in the Project Activity table. 

Executing a Utility Project

From the Execution tab, click the Execute button.

Enter values in the Execute Request Form as described in the table below.

Click the Submit Request button to submit the execute request.

Testing a Project

From the Execution tab, click the Test button.

Enter values in the Run Tests Request Form as described below. 

Click the Submit Request button to submit the test execution.

Monitoring Project Workflow Request

Once a project build or deployment request has been submitted, the request status can be monitored by clicking on the Request Id.

You can click on the Refresh button and watch the statuses progress throughout the lifecycle until it is either Failed or Completed. To see more details about an request click on the id in the Request Id column of the Project Activity section.

Read more about the Project Workflow Request.

Monitoring Project Workflow Execution

Once a project build or deployment request has been submitted, it can be monitored by clicking on the Execution Id.

You can click on the Refresh button and watch the statuses progress throughout the lifecycle until it is either a Failure or Success. To see more details about an execution, click on the id in the Execution Id column of the Project Activity section.

Read more about the Project Workflow Execution.