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Creating Connected Guide

Full documentation is available here (opens in a new tab). This guide will walk you through the steps to create a connected app.

Pre-requisites

  • Salesforce developer account to be able to access the REST APIs
  • A Salesforce user with the permissions to create connected a

Step 1: Go To Connected App

Go to Setup Screen and search for "App Manager" and click on "New Connected App".

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Step 2: Create Connected App

Fill in the fields as the following and click save:

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Step 3: Copy Consumer Key and Consumer Secret

Now that this is configured click Manage Consumer Details to view your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret (those will be used as client_id and client_secret to configure your CloudQuery Salesforce source plugin).

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And copy the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret somewhere safe so you can provide them as environment variables to the Salesforce plugin.

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Step 4: Final Configuration

Depending on where you run CloudQuery your might need to change IP Relxation to Relax IP restrictions or configure the IP address of the machine you run CloudQuery on.

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