Centralizing Salesforce metadata - 7.3

• With the Basic option selected, you need to specify the following details:

  • User Id: the ID of the user in Salesforce.

  • Password: the password associated with the user ID.

  • Security Key: the security token.

• With the OAuth option selected, you need to specify the following details:

  • Client Id and Client Secret: the OAuth consumer key and consumer secret, which are available in the OAuth Settings area of the Connected App that you have created at Salesforce.com.

  • Callback Host and Callback Port: the OAuth authentication callback URL. This URL (both host and port) is defined during the creation of a Connected App and will be shown in the OAuth Settings area of the Connected App.

  • Token File: the path to the token file that stores the refresh token used to get the access token without authorization.

• enter the Salesforce Webservice URL required to connect to the Salesforce system.

• select the Bulk Connection check box if you need to use bulk data processing function.

• select the Use or save the connection session check box and in the Session directory field displayed, specify the path to the connection session file to be saved or used.

  This session file can be shared by different Jobs to retrieve a connection session as long as the correct user ID is provided by the component. This way, you do not need to connect to the server to retrieve the session.

  When an expired session is detected, if the correct connection information (the user ID, password, and security key) is provided, the component will connect to the server to retrieve the new session information and update the connection session file.

  This check box is available only when Basic is selected from the Connection type drop-down list.

• select the Need compression check box to activate SOAP message compression, which can result in increased performance levels.

• select the Trace HTTP message check box to output the HTTP interactions on the console.

  This option is available if the Bulk Connection check box is selected.

• select the Use HTTP Chunked check box to use the HTTP chunked data transfer mechanism.

  This option is not available if the Bulk Connection check box is selected.

• enter the ID of the real user in the Client Id field to differentiate between those who use the same account and password to access the Salesforce website.

• fill the Timeout field with the Salesforce connection timeout value, in milliseconds.

• If needed, select the Use Proxy check box to set the SOCKS type proxy and enter the corresponding setting details. Note that you can also set the HTTP type proxy via Window > Preferences > General > Network Connections.

You can type in filter text to narrow down your selection.

The newly created Salesforce connection is displayed under the Salesforce node in the Repository tree view, along with the schemas of the selected modules.