Before You Install the Recipe

To access Salesforce using Oracle Integration and attach files to records, you must perform certain configuration tasks on your Salesforce instance.

You must 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.

In addition, you must identify your Salesforce instance type and your current Salesforce API version. Finally, you must obtain the ID of the Salesforce record to which you want to attach files.

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 Salesforce Classic UI. See Toggle or switch between Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic.

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, expand Manage Users under the Administer section in the left navigation pane.
2. Click Profiles.
3. On the Profiles page, click New Profile.
4. 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.
5. Click Edit on the Profile Detail page.
6. 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.
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 user name.
  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 down 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.
Identify your current Salesforce API version.
1. On the Salesforce Setup page, scroll to the Build section in the left navigation pane.
2. Click Develop, and then API.
3. On the API WSDL page, click the Generate Enterprise WSDL link.
  The WSDL is displayed in a new browser tab, and your current API version is present in the second line. For example:
```
Salesforce.com Enterprise Web Services API Version 52.0
```
4. Note down the API version.
Identify your Salesforce instance type.
1. If you use the URL https://login.salesforce.com to log in to your Salesforce account, your instance type is Production.
2. If you use the URL https://test.salesforce.com to log in to your Salesforce account, your instance type is Sandbox.
Identify the Salesforce record to which you want to attach files and obtain the record's ID. As an example, we'll use an account record.
1. On the Salesforce Setup page, click the Accounts tab.
  
  Note:
  If you don't see the Accounts tab on the Setup page, click the Plus icon to the right of your current tabs, and then click Accounts.
2. On the Accounts Home page, click an account to open it.
3. In the account page's URL, note down the string after the last forward slash (/).
  This is the account record's Salesforce ID. You'll specify this ID while sending a REST request with the file attachment from an external application to the integration flow of this recipe.