Why can't I publish my sandbox?

It might be because of one or more of these reasons.

• You haven't yet made any changes in your sandbox.

• Another sandbox is currently being published in this environment. Try publishing your sandbox again later.

• Your mainline metadata has changes from other published sandboxes. You must refresh your sandbox and then publish it.

• You don't have the Administer Sandbox (FND_ADMINISTER_SANDBOX_PRIV) privilege, which is required for publishing sandboxes. To get this privilege, contact your security administrator.

• The Control Publish Sandbox Action in Production Environment profile option (FND_ALLOW_PUBLISH_SANDBOX) is set to No. To enable publishing, set this profile option to Yes. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, use the Manage Applications Core Administrator Profile Values task in the Application Extensions functional area.

• The application is in maintenance mode. Try publishing your sandbox again later.

• While creating this sandbox, you have set the Publishable field as No, which means this sandbox can never be published.

• Your sandbox is in an inactive state, which happens if a publish action on it failed. You can never publish such inactive sandboxes.

• Your application was patched, updated, or upgraded, and all sandboxes that were available before the patch, update, or upgrade, can no longer be published. In the future, publish your sandboxes before patches are applied, or any release updates or upgrades happen.

• A migration set was just applied into the environment, and now all sandboxes that have Application Composer activated in them, can no longer be published. In the future, publish or delete sandboxes before applying any migration sets.