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Creating a Salesforce Connection in the Developer Tool

Use the Salesforce connection to connect to Salesforce from the Developer tool to import Salesforce data objects, preview data, or run mappings.

Perform the following steps to create a Salesforce connection in the Developer tool:

Click

Window

Preferences

Select

Informatica

Connections

Expand the domain.

Select

Cloud

Salesforce

and click

Add

When you set up a Salesforce connection, you can select the connection type as

Standard

OAuth

.The following table lists the properties for a standard connection:

Connection Property	Description
Name	Name of the Salesforce connection.
ID	The Data Integration Service uses the ID to identify the connection.
Description	Optional. The description of the connection.
Location	Informatica domain where you want to create the connection.
Type	Connection type. Select Salesforce.
User Name	User name for the Salesforce account.
User Password	Password for the Salesforce account.
Service URL	URL of the Salesforce service. For example, https://login.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/48.0

The following table lists the properties for an OAuth connection:

Connection Property	Description
Name	Name of the OAuth connection.
ID	The Data Integration Service uses the ID to identify the connection.
Description	Optional. The description of the connection.
Location	Informatica domain where you want to create the connection.
Type	Connection type. Select OAuth.
Service URL	URL of the Salesforce service. For example, https://login.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/48.0
Refresh Token	The Refresh Token of Salesforce.
Consumer Key	The Consumer Key obtained from Salesforce, required to generate the Refresh Token. For more information about how to generate the Consumer Key, see the Salesforce documentation.
Consumer Secret	The Consumer Secret obtained from Salesforce, required to generate the Refresh Token. For more information about how to generate the Consumer Secret, see the Salesforce documentation.