How can validation rules be reactivated after a deployment?

Reactivating validation rules after a deployment is a crucial step to ensure that the rules are enforced in the environment where changes have been made. Setting the Manual Task deployment step to Complete is the correct method for reactivating these rules because it triggers the associated processes or tasks that have been paused or disabled during the deployment.

When deployment involves changes that may affect existing validations, these rules can be temporarily deactivated to facilitate the deployment process without errors. Once the deployment is successfully completed, marking the Manual Task as Complete effectively activates the suppressed validation rules again, ensuring that the data integrity checks are in place and functioning correctly once more.

The other methods generally do not directly address the reactivation of validation rules. For instance, creating a new deployment record does not tie into the activation process and would instead initiate a new change management process. Automatic reactivation after a successful deployment is also not applicable since validation rules typically require explicit action to be reactivated. Similarly, running a separate user story could involve different tasks unrelated to the immediate reactivation of validation rules from the deployment in question.