Configuring the Adapter for Salesforce.com

How to:

Configure an Adapter

Reference:

Salesforce.com Connection Parameters

Configuring the adapter consists of specifying connection and authentication information for each of the connections you want to establish.

Procedure: How to Configure an Adapter

From the Web Console sidebar, click Connect to Data.

or

From the Data Management Console, expand the Adapters folder.

In the DMC, the Adapters folder opens. In the Web Console, the Adapters page opens showing your configured adapters.
In the Web Console, click the New Datasource button on the menu bar and find the adapter on the drop-down list or, in the DMC, expand the Available folder if it is not already expanded.
On the Web Console, you can select a category of adapter from the drop-down list or use the search option (magnifying glass) to search for specific characters.
In the DMC, expand the appropriate group folder and the specific adapter folder. The group folder is described in the connection attributes reference.
Right-click the adapter name and/or version and select Configure.

The Add Adapter to Configuration pane opens.
Enter values for the parameters required by the adapter, as described in the chapter for the specific adapter you want to configure.
Click Configure. The configured adapter is added to the Adapters list in the DMC resources tree or the Configured list in the Web Console.
In the Web Console, the adapter remains on the Available Adapters list with a check mark to indicate that at least one connection has been configured. You can configure additional connections from either the Configured or Available list by right-clicking the adapter and clicking Add Connection.

Reference: Salesforce.com Connection Parameters

The following list describes the information in the Add Salesforce.com to Configuration dialog box. Not all options appear for all applications.

Connection name

Logical name used to identify this particular set of connection attributes. The default is CON01.

x x

User

Salesforce.com user ID (email address).x x

Password

The password associated with your Salesforce.com user ID, followed by the security token. For example, if your password is myPass and your security token is xyyzyx then you would enter myPassxyyzyz. x x

SALESFORCE URL

The URL to login to Salesforce.com using SOAP. Use the default value provided unless instructed otherwise by customer support.

Select profile

Select a profile from the drop-down menu to indicate the level of profile in which to store the CONNECTION_ATTRIBUTES command. The global profile, edasprof.prf, is the default.

If you wish to create a new profile, either a user profile (user.prf) or a group profile if available on your platform (using the appropriate naming convention), choose New Profile from the drop-down menu and enter a name in the Profile Name field (the extension is added automatically).

Store the connection attributes in the server profile (edasprof).

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