So you needed the body field and the saved search.

figured I'd start a thread ha but yes, and the custom record itself, all of which were in my SDF project object xmls

So the real problem is much harder to solve then. I see what you mean. You need the custom record to exist before the sublist on the custom record can exist because the body field can’t be there without it and the sublist can’t be there without the saved search, which can’t be there without the custom record.

exactly. I got around it eventually through trial and error manipulating sequence of those objects in the deploy.xml file, I was just hoping that was not necessary