Salesforce Version

The Aspire Salesforce connector was created and tested using API version Summer '23 (version 57). Organization Edition, Developer Edition.

Before installing the Salesforce connector, make sure that:

User Account Requirements

To access Salesforce, a user account with sufficient privileges must be supplied. It is recommended the account be the site administrator.

Before installing the Aspire Salesforce Connector, make sure that:

Your Salesforce user must have the API Enabled System Permission.
Your Salesforce should have the Allow OAuth Username-Password Flows active.
You have a Salesforce user Security Token (please view Security Token Information)
You have a Salesforce APP created (please view Chatter App Information)
You have the Salesforce Consumer Key (please view Consumer Key Information)
You have the Salesforce Consumer Secret (please view Consumer Secret Information)

You will need all those credentials later, as part of the Salesforce Connector installation.

To use the TYPEOF statements in the sQueries file (SOQL), you need to enable this feature in your Salesforce instance.

The Aspire Salesforce connector can run on either Windows or Linux. It uses the REST API over HTTP or HTTPS to communicate with Salesforce.

Salesforce Connector uses the following web services: