Salesforce Adapter Capabilities

The Salesforce Adapter enables you to create an integration with Salesforce CRM applications.

The Salesforce Adapter provides the following benefits:

• Enables simplified bidirectional integration with Salesforce.com.

• Discovers business objects and operations and provides easy mapping to and from Salesforce.com business objects.

• Provides ease of use in the mapper by recommending the most frequently-used business objects and renders human readable names for the elements found in Salesforce business objects for easy mapping.

• Provides support for performing the following type of operations against business objects fetched from the Salesforce application:

  • Bulk Create, Update, Upsert, Delete, and so on operations on all of the business objects supported by Salesforce

  • Core (Convertlead, GetDeleted, GetUpdated, Process, Merge, Undelete, and Upsert)
  • CRUD (create, delete, retrieve, and update) operations
  • Declaratively defining and executing SOQL and SOSL queries
  • Salesforce Object Search Language (SOSL) search operation
  • Utility (GetUserInfo, GetServerTimestamp, and SendEmail) operations

  See Process Large Data Sets Asynchronously with Different Bulk Operations and Use Bulk Response Operations in an Integration.

• Supports all custom objects defined by the user and custom fields created at Salesforce.com along with the standard objects and fields.

• Supports consuming custom Apex classes developed and exposed as SOAP services in force.com.

• Supports receiving notifications (events) sent with outbound messaging and the Streaming API (that is, platform events and change data capture events) from Salesforce.com.

• Supports trigger (source) callbacks.

• Supports Salesforce APIs protected using OAuth two-legged and three-legged token-based authentication and user name token-based authentication.