Before You Install the Recipe

You must perform the following configuration tasks on your Salesforce and Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing instances to connect to these external systems using Oracle Integration and sync accounts.

Configure Salesforce

To access Salesforce from Oracle Integration and retrieve information about Salesforce accounts, you must perform certain configurations on your Salesforce instance.

Create a user account on Salesforce for Oracle Integration. You’ll use the credentials of this user account while configuring the Salesforce connection in Oracle Integration.

Also, identify your Salesforce instance type and your current Salesforce API version. In addition, create an outbound message to trigger the integration flow of the recipe, and create a workflow rule to send the outbound message when a Salesforce account with active as Yes is created.

Log in to your Salesforce instance as an Administrator and execute the following tasks.

Note:

The steps provided here apply to the Salesforce Classic UI. If you’re using the Lightning Experience UI on your Salesforce instance, switch to the Classic UI. See Toggle or switch between Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.

  1. Create an API-enabled custom role. You’ll assign this role to the user account you’ll subsequently create for Oracle Integration.
    1. On the Salesforce Setup page:

      1. Expand Manage Users under the Administer section in the left navigation pane.

      2. Click Profiles.

    2. On the Profiles page, click New Profile.
    3. On the resulting page:

      1. Select Standard User in the Existing Profile field.

      2. Enter a name for the new profile (for example, API Enabled), and click Save.

      The new profile is now saved, and the Profile Detail page of the new profile is displayed.

    4. Click Edit on the Profile Detail page.
    5. On the Profile Edit page:

      1. Scroll to the Administrative Permissions section and ensure that the API Enabled check box is selected.

      2. Scroll to the Standard Object Permissions section and perform the following actions.

        • In the Accounts row, leave the Read, Create, Edit, and Delete boxes checked. Additionally, select the ViewAll check box.
        • In the Contacts row, leave the Read, Create, Edit, and Delete boxes checked. Additionally, select the ViewAll check box.
        • In the Price Books row, leave the Read box checked. Additionally, select the Create, Edit, and Delete check boxes.
        • In the Products row, leave the Read box checked. Additionally, select the Create, Edit, and Delete check boxes.

      3. Scroll to the end of the page and click Save.

  2. Create a user account for Oracle Integration and assign the custom role created previously to this account.

    Note:

    If you have already created a user account for Oracle Integration, you can assign the API-enabled custom role to the existing account.
    1. On the Profile Detail page of the API Enabled profile, click View Users.
    2. Click New User in the resulting page.
    3. On the New User page:

      1. Enter a first name and last name for the user. For example, Integration User05.

      2. In the Email field, enter a valid email address.

        The email address you enter is automatically populated in the Username field. Note down this username.

      3. In the User License field, select Salesforce.

      4. In the Profile field, select the profile you created previously, that is, API Enabled.

      5. Scroll to the end of the page, ensure that the Generate new password and notify user immediately check box is selected, and click Save.

        The user account is now created, and a verification email is sent to the email address you provided for the account.

    4. Log in to the corresponding email account and click the Verify Account button in the email message from Salesforce. You’re redirected to the Salesforce instance to set a password for the new user account.
    5. Set a password and note the same.
      Subsequently, you’re signed in to the Salesforce instance with the new account.

      Note:

      If you’re shown the Lighting Experience UI, switch to the Salesforce Classic UI. See Toggle or switch between Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.

    6. Generate a security token for the new user account. You’ll need this security token along with the password to access Salesforce using Oracle Integration.

      1. Stay signed in as the new user, and click the user name at the top of the page to open a menu.

      2. Click My Settings in the menu.

      3. On the My Settings page, in the Quick Links section, click Edit my personal information.

      4. On the resulting page, click Reset My Security Token in the left navigation pane.

      5. Click the Reset Security Token button.

        A new security token is sent to the email address associated with the account. Note down the security token.

      6. On the Salesforce instance, click the user name again and select Logout from the menu. Log back in as the Administrator.

  3. Identify your current Salesforce API version. See Find Your Current Salesforce API Version.
  4. Identify your Salesforce instance type. See Identify the Instance Type of Your Salesforce Organization.
  5. Create an outbound message. The outbound message triggers the integration flow of this recipe.
    1. On the Salesforce Setup page:
      1. Scroll to the Build section in the left navigation pane.
      2. Expand Create, then Workflow & Approvals, and then click Outbound Messages.
      If you’re shown the Understanding Workflow page, click Continue.
    2. Click New Outbound Message in the resulting page.
    3. On the New Outbound Message page:
      1. In the Object field, select Account and click Next.
      2. Enter the following details for the new outbound message:
      • Enter a name for the outbound message. Note that the Unique Name field is automatically populated based on the name you enter.
      • Optionally, enter a description for the message.
      • In the Endpoint URL field, enter the following URL: https://<OIC_FQDN:OIC_SSL_PORT /ic/ws/integration/v2/flows/salesforce/project/ORCL-R-PUB-SUB-SOURCE-TARGET/SUBSCRIB_ACCOUNTS_FROM_SFDC/1.0/

        Where OIC_FQDN and OIC_SSL_PORT are the fully-qualified domain name and port of your Oracle Integration instance (for example, oicinstance.example.com:443).

      • In the User to send as field, select the user account using which you want to send the message.
      • Under Account fields to send, select all the fields and click Add.
      • Click Save.
      The new outbound message is created and displayed on your browser.
  6. Now, create a workflow rule to send the outbound message (created previously) when a Salesforce account is created.
    1. On the Salesforce Setup page:
      1. Scroll to the Build section in the left navigation pane.
      2. Expand Create, then Workflow & Approvals, and then click Workflow Rules.

      If you’re shown the Understanding Workflow page, click Continue.

    2. Click New Rule in the resulting page.
    3. On the New Workflow Rule page:
      1. Select Account in the Object field, and click Next.
      2. Enter the following details for the new workflow rule:
        • Enter the rule’s name.
        • Optionally, enter a description for the rule.
        • In the Evaluation Criteria section, select the created, and every time it’s edited radio button.
        • In the Rule Criteria section, select the formula evaluates to true option, and define the following rule criteria:
          Account: Active EQUALS Yes
        • Click Save & Next.
      3. On the next page, click the Add Workflow Action button and choose Select Existing Action.
      4. On the Select Existing Actions page:
        • Select Outbound Message in the Search field.
        • In the Available Actions box, select the outbound message you created previously, for example, 
          Outbound Message: <name of your outbound message>
          .
        • Click Add to move your selection to the Selected Actions box.
        • Click Save.
      5. Click Done.
      The new workflow rule is created and displayed on your browser.
    4. Click Activate to activate the rule.

Configure Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing

To successfully connect to Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing using Oracle Integration, and synchronize account data from Salesforce to ATP you must perform certain configurations on your Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing instance.

  1. Perform the general configuration tasks for creating a connection. See Prerequisites for Creating a Connection in Using the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Adapter with Oracle Integration 3.
  2. Run the following script to create the necessary objects:
    CREATE TABLE "ADMIN"."XX_ACCOUNTS" 
   (	"ACCOUNT_ID" VARCHAR2(200 BYTE) COLLATE "USING_NLS_COMP", 
	"NAME" VARCHAR2(200 BYTE) COLLATE "USING_NLS_COMP", 
	"TOTAL_EMPLOYEES" NUMBER(*,0), 
	"CONTACT_NUMBER" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE) COLLATE "USING_NLS_COMP", 
	"SOURCE" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE) COLLATE "USING_NLS_COMP"
   )  DEFAULT COLLATION "USING_NLS_COMP" ;

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ADMIN"."XX_ACCOUNTS_PK" ON "ADMIN"."XX_ACCOUNTS" ("ACCOUNT_ID") 
  ;

ALTER TABLE "ADMIN"."XX_ACCOUNTS" ADD CONSTRAINT "XX_ACCOUNTS_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("ACCOUNT_ID")
  USING INDEX  ENABLE;