Updated defer in the dbt Cloud IDE docs

website/docs/docs/cloud/about-cloud-develop-defer.md

@@ -35,12 +35,16 @@ When using defer, it compares artifacts from the most recent successful producti
 
 ### Defer in the dbt Cloud IDE
 
-To enable defer in the dbt Cloud IDE, toggle the **Defer to production** button on the command bar. Once enabled, dbt Cloud will:
+To use deferral in the IDE, you must have production artifacts generated by a deploy job. dbt Cloud will first check for these artifacts in your Staging environment (if available), or else in the Production environment. 
 
-1. Pull down the most recent manifest from the Production environment for comparison
+The defer feature in the IDE won't work if a Staging environment exists but no deploy job has run. This is because the necessary metadata to power defer won't exist until a deploy job has run successfully in the Staging environment.
+
+To enable defer in the dbt Cloud IDE, toggle the **Defer to staging/production** button on the command bar. Once enabled, dbt Cloud will:
+
+1. Pull down the most recent manifest from the Staging or Production environment for comparison
 2. Pass the `--defer` flag to the command (for any command that accepts the flag)
 
-For example, if you were to start developing on a new branch with [nothing in your development schema](/reference/node-selection/defer#usage), edit a single model, and run `dbt build -s state:modified` —  only the edited model would run. Any `{{ ref() }}` functions will point to the production location of the referenced models.
+For example, if you were to start developing on a new branch with [nothing in your development schema](/reference/node-selection/defer#usage), edit a single model, and run `dbt build -s state:modified` —  only the edited model would run. Any `{{ ref() }}` functions will point to the staging or production location of the referenced models.
 
 <Lightbox src="/img/docs/dbt-cloud/defer-toggle.jpg" width="100%" title="Select the 'Defer to production' toggle on the bottom right of the command bar to enable defer in the dbt Cloud IDE."/>