Accessing and creating Salesforce data in a message flow (no discovery)

You can use the SalesforceRequest (no discovery) node to communicate with Salesforce.com, enabling you to create, retrieve, update, and delete Salesforce records.

Before you begin

Configure a secure connection to Salesforce.com (see Configuring a secure connection to Salesforce.com (no discovery)).

About this task

Note: SalesforceRequest (no discovery) is the new name for the node that was called SalesforceRequest in previous versions of IBM App Connect Enterprise (up to and including V12.0.4), and it continues to operate in the same way as in previous versions.

In IBM App Connect Enterprise 12.0.5 (and later versions), a new Salesforce Request node is provided, which you configure by using a Connector Discovery wizard to discover and set properties for the Salesforce connector. For information about using this feature, see Using Salesforce with IBM App Connect Enterprise and Salesforce Request node.

The following topics explain how to work with records in a Salesforce system (without using connector discovery):

JSON schema are supplied for a wide range of Salesforce objects, and you can use them as input and output for message maps in a Mapping node. For example, you can create the message tree for a Salesforce Account record in a Mapping node by using the JSON schema for the Account object. For more information, see Using Salesforce models (no discovery).