Identify the scope of the impact that an application patch will have on the deployed application to understand how many objects will experience down-time during patch deployment. When an application has multiple users, a larger scope lowers the number of objects that are available to those users.
To identify the scope, use values from the impact summary based on the following object types:
Selected objects. The sum of the objects that you select to appear in the patch and the objects that the patch inherits. The maximum value is the number of application objects in the design-time application.
Updated objects. The sum of the objects that will be modified or affected. The maximum value is the number of application objects in the run-time application.
Added objects. The number of objects that will be added to the run-time application.
The number of selected objects might be different from the number of updated objects if the design-time application contains a different set of dependencies from the run-time application.
The following image shows where the Incremental Deployment wizard displays the summary: