Salesforce Update transform Icon Salesforce Update

Description

The Salesforce Update transform updates records directly in your Salesforce database using the Salesforce Web Service.

You can also use the following other transforms to modify your Salesforce database:

Supported Engines

Hop Engine

Supported

Spark

Maybe Supported

Flink

Maybe Supported

Dataflow

Maybe Supported

General

Enter the following information in the transform name field:

  • Transform name: Specifies the unique name of the Salesforce Update transform on the canvas. You can customize the name or leave it as the default.

Connection

Enter the connection information in the following transform options:

Option

Description

Salesforce Webservice URL

Specify the URL to the Salesforce Webservice.

Default: https://login.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/50.0

You may need to update this if your company uses "My Domain" on salesforce. If so, check with your Salesforce Administrator for the URL. Generally of the format https://NAME.my.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/50.0. You can access a sandbox by using its URL here as well. It is strongly recommended to utilize variables to populate these values.

Username

Specify the username for authenticating to Salesforce

Password

Specify the password for authenticating to Salesforce. Enter your password followed by your security token. For example, if your password is PASSWORD and your security token is TOKEN, you would enter PASSWORDTOKEN in this field.

Test Connection

Click to verify the connection can be made to the Salesforce Webservice URL you specified.

Settings

Settings

Enter the insert process settings in the following transform options:

Option Description

Time out

Specify the timeout interval in milliseconds before the transform times out.

Use compression

Select to compress (.gzip) data when connecting between Hop and Salesforce.

Rollback all changes on

Revert changes unless all records are processed successfully. When you select this option, records without errors are inserted, while records with errors are marked as failed in the insertion results. The default behavior is to allow partial success of insertion.

Batch Size

Indicate the maximum number of records to collect before the insert is committed.

Module

Select the module (table) in which you want to insert records.

This list will be populated upon successfully authenticating to Salesforce using the Test Connection button.

Fields

You can specify what fields to insert into your Salesforce database through the Fields table. Click Get fields to populate the table with input from the Hop data stream.

The table contains the following columns:

Option Description

Module field

The name of the field within the Module

Stream field

The name of the field in the Hop data stream

Use External id?

The flag indicating if the field links to an external ID. To resolve the ID, Salesforce needs the object type, column name, and relationship name in the following syntax:

Object name:column name/relationship

Optionally, click Edit mapping to specify custom mapping. For example, you can map a single Hop field to multiple Salesforce fields.