1. Configuring the Salesforce Application
  2. What’s New In This Guide?

What’s New In This Guide?

These are the updates made to the software and documentation for release 12.2.1.3.0 of Configuring the Salesforce Application.

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

  • Software Updates

    This section describes updates made to the connector software. This section also points out the sections of this guide that have been changed in response to each software update.

  • Documentation-Specific Updates

    These include major changes made to this guide. For example, the relocation of a section from the second chapter to the third chapter is a documentation-specific update. These changes are not related to software updates.

Software Updates

These are the updates made to the connector software.

Software Updates in Release 12.2.1.3.0

The following is the software update in release 12.2.1.3.0:

Support for Onboarding Applications Using the Connector From this release onward, the connector bundle includes application onboarding templates required for performing connector operations on the Salesforce target system. This helps in quicker onboarding of the applications for Salesforce into Oracle Identity Governance by using an intuitive UI.

Software Updates in Release 12.2.1.3.1

The following is the software update in release 12.2.1.3.1:

Support for Salesforce REST API

From this release onwards, the Connector is redesigned to use the Salesforce REST API's. In the previous releases, the Connector used is the SCIM based API's to connect to the target system and perform connector operations. The SCIM based Salesforce connector 12.2.1.3.0 has limitation with custom attributes and lookup. From this release onward, REST API's will overcome the SCIM API's limitations.

Documentation-Specific Updates

These are the updates made to the connector documentation.

Documentation-Specific Updates in Release 12.2.1.3.0

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in revision "3" of this guide:

  • A Note on using the Salesforce-12.2.1.3.0A patch has been added to Configuring Salesforce .

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in revision "2" of this guide:

  • The "Oracle Identity Governance or Oracle Identity Manager" row of Certified Components has been updated to include support for Oracle Identity Governance release 12c PS4 (12.2.1.4.0).

  • Some editorial corrections have been made.