An application programming interface (API) is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other.
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Requests from One PHP form to two Salesforce orgs
We need to create a PHP form that will simultaneously send data to two Salesforce orgs, and update Accounts, Contacts, and some custom objects. Is it possible? What will be the best approach to ...
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Difference between AccountId and WhatId in a Salesforce Task
Specifically regarding Email objects in Salesforce's REST API, i get redundant AccountIds on fields- AccountId and WhatId. Seems like both of these are Accounts related to the Task.
My query to fetch ...
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How do I setup an access_token ?
I have a python script on a local server that needs to be given OAuth permissions to salesforce.com
According to salesforce's documentation, I need to create a new token.
Develop -> Remote ...
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How can I find my salesforce.com API request limit?
Can you tell what your API limit is for a 24 hour period?
It appears that salesforce has Unlimited, Developer, Gold plans.
How can I tell which one I have? I'm looking to retrieve it though the ...
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Is salesforce REST API support disabled in Enterprise Edition
i understand that API support is specially activated for Partner DE applications, so as to also include PE. Even the Salesforce trial EE account, the API call returns a-
Error: call to URL ...
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DescribeSObjectResult.Fields contains fields that do not appear to exist?
I am using the force.com SOAP API (Partner WSDL) to query one of our Salesforce orgs and retrieve a list of all objects and all fields of each object.
This seemed pretty simple as I could quite ...
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Does salesforce now require a security token even if if you have whitelisted ip?
It used to be that you could ditch the security token in API calls if you whitelisted an IP range for a user's profile. I've got a new dev org (wouldn't be doing this for production orgs) and I still ...
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Accessing a Salesforce sandbox through API
can someone with salesforce API integration help me understand the requirements to access a client's Sandbox? I need to access the sandbox and pull data into our MySQL server.
I hired a programmer ...
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SalesForce Batch Compression Unexpected Error
In SalesForce' Bulk API, on page 60 of their documentation:
Compression
The only valid compression value is gzip. Compression is optional, but strongly recommended. Note that compression
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How to perform upsert in SalesForce Bulk API in C#
I have created a class with which I can insert, update and delete records from SalesForce using their bulk API. I have searched the web and have come across various resources; but I cannot seem to ...
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Ajax Toolkit, asynchronous javascript return values to a global variable
I am creating this Visual force page that will heavily rely on the Ajax tool kit and trying to do it asynchronous style, because I think that is what the cool kids are doing.
Is it not possible to ...
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Access reports though api
I'm looking for examples of how to query the salesforce rest api, to get the values from these reports.
Reading this site, gives an example, but not much explanation.
curl ...
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How to deploy workflows for all users of the enterprise with an admin account?
I am developing some workflows and layouts that I want to deploy on all the users of an enterprise through API(unmanaged). Provided that I have the System Administrator account's privileges(using ...
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Get all page-layouts for an object via API
I am attempting to get all page-layouts (w/ details) for a given object via the API.
Currently using describeLayout which gives me the details I would need about a layout, the problem with this is ...
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Enabling API access for GE/PE Edition: How to Append Partner Token to clientId for SOAP Call Salesforce?
I have received a partner token from Salesforce which needs to be appended in SOAP header, I am using following code to authenticate a valid session, but I am not sure where I need to append partner ...
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Creating EventRelation over API
I am trying to create and EventRelation over API, but I keep getting the following error even though I see EventRelation as available sObject and "Allow Users to Relate Multiple Contacts to Tasks and ...
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API Calls - What Script/ Page/ Etc Made The Call?
Currently, our Web Development team is trying to mop up years of scattered coding techniques (PHP based sites), and in recent weeks, something disturbing has happened. Our API calls to Salesforce ...
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Bulk API Query - Splitting large query into batches
I'm currently using the bulk-api to return all records for a given sObject.
I can make it work via one very large batch, but I think it would be more efficient if I could split it into multiple ...
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Creating workflow for custom object throws namespace error
I am trying to create workflows for all the objects on an Enterprise type account(test org created via partner portal). Using the meta-data API I am fetching all the objects and there are some custom ...
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PHP Soap API returning XML string
I have successfully connected to SalesForce using the Soap API and the Force.com toolkit for php.
When returning records, however, I am getting part xml responses:
SELECT Id, Name, ...
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Add contact to Salesforce 'Contact Manager' edition via API?
I'm new to Salesforce, and working on an integration task which involves adding contacts to Salesforce from an existing system and keeping them in sync (one way; contacts updated in existing system ...
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How do I perform a query to the salesforce bulk API with the salesforce_bulk_api gem?
I'm trying to perform a bulk query to salesforce with the salesforce_bulk_api gem. I am connecting successfully and doing the query with no problems but I can't get the actual results.
This is what I ...
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New Report and Dashboard Folder Sharing Settings API Access
Is it posible to access the new sharing settings for reports and dashboards? We have lots of folders and it would be nice to be able to update them using Data Loader instead of one by one.
I'm ...
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Workflow limits in response to API calls
Are there limitations on the number of workflow rules that can be triggered simultaneously for my org?
Here's the situation. My company is running as Unlimited with between 100 - 200 users. My ...
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Access to State and Country Picklist values through Apex or API?
I recognize that State and Country Picklists are still a "Beta" feature, but does anyone know if, in Summer 13, its possible to get at the State and Country Picklist Values through either the Apex ...
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Salesforce api v28 not rendering CSS styling when rendering as PDF
I'm creating a Visualforce page rendered as a pdf ( renderAs="pdf" ), and the page won't render any of my CSS styling. I am wrapping my <style> with <head> as shown below.
<apex:page ...
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API: Retrieve Record Types for Contact
I'm trying to retrieve a list of all record types relating to the Contact object in Salesforce using the Enterprise WSDl in C#. Currently I am setting a Contact object like this:
var contact = new ...
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how to control API access to applications
I think there is no way to do this but wanted to check.
I would want to control what remote applications can access Salesforce via the API.
Right now, if you set "API Enabled" to true, you are ...
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“Required fields are missing” on non-null field
My organization uses a third-party relational replication tool to sync data between Salesforce and a SQL Server database. The replication software is written in Java and uses the Salesforce API for ...
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System/Audit fields work only partially (setting CreatedDate - works, setting LastModifiedDate - doesn't)
I am trying to create an Event in Salesforce via SOAP API. Setting System/Audit fields via API is enabled.
I see that the resulting SOAP Envelope includes correct values for CreatedById, CreatedDate, ...
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How can I specify an application name when logging in?
I was looking at the login history of my Salesforce API account and I noticed there was a column for application name. I would love to be able to specify that when performing a login so I can ...
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Salesforce: Any API for getting user information?
I am trying to find a way to get the information about the salesforce enterprise user from his auth_token. I want to find the username, email address and role(admin/user) from the auth-token.
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Where did the line numbers go (browser editor)?
Using Google Chrome to edit Apex code / VF Pages in the Browser directly from test.salesforce.com. This has worked well for me (way better than the Developer Console or Eclipse - my programs are ...
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Query Account history using API
Is there a way to query the account history using php and the API? I have some accounts that got updated unnecessarily and I need to view the history to programmatically update them all back to their ...
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Determine sobject Type From Id Using SOAP API
I'm using C# and would like to determine the type of an sObject based on it's id.
I would like to pass an id to my app and have it return a list of accounts related to it. I need to identify the ...
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How to get Field name
I have a VF page where admin can select fields which need to be displayed. And on an another Vf page i am getting the API name of all the selected fields in 1st Vf page. This much is working fine i ...
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How to connect to SAP from Salesforce with the SAP SD wsdl [duplicate]
Having SAP SD WSDL file how can I connect to SAP from Salesforce ?
After connecting with salesforce, I only want to view the data.
1.Now i convert this WSDL file into apex classes next step what can ...
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accessing the Streaming API from a public-facing Force.com Site
I've got a telemetry application for which the Streaming API would be extremely useful. However I want the subscriptions to be publicly accessible. (So that anyone with the client can waltz up and ...
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Report CSV export from API [duplicate]
Right now we are using Beatbox for the connection between Python and Salesforce.
We were wondering if its possible to get the csv file from the report export using the following URL using Python ...
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Invalid Session ID error appearing randomly
I am using the PHP partner API for salesforce and am coming across a rather odd issue randomly. Here is the error message I am getting:
Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: ...
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Know if is a custom profile via API
Is it possible to know if a profile is custom via API?
Like an attribute "profile.isCustom".
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Error [sforce-2900000]: INVALID_FIELD: Can select only RecordId, a Has*Access field, and MaxAccessLevel
Running the below query returns and error message
"Error [sforce-2900000]: INVALID_FIELD: Can select only RecordId, a Has*Access field, and MaxAccessLevel"
SELECT
RecordId,
HasReadAccess,
...
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Where is the API documentation for Apex InboundEmail?
I want to know all the API's in
Messaging.InboundEnvelope
and
Messaging.InboundEmail
I google and all I get is tutorials. I want the API's.
I want to see if I can get the sent date of the ...
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InsideSales Dialer - field security has to be bypassed?
Anyone out there using the InsideSales dialer?
I recently was advised that, after I turned OFF an option I would never want on to begin with for most of our profiles... Edit Read Only Fields... ...
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How do I use the Tooling API to create a new Apex Trigger?
How do I use the Tooling API to create a new Apex Trigger (rather than update an existing one)?
According to the documentation I need to specify the ContentEntityId as an existing Trigger Id. But in ...
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Access salesforce API version of a class in Apex
I have a few classes that need to be kept at the same Salesforce API version since they interact with Salesforce metadata that may change between API versions. Because of this I would like to be able ...
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How to Check if a File is Encrypted or not?
I have a requirement to check whether a file is encrypted (using AES) or not before uploading. If not encrypted the upload should not happen and an Error Message should be thrown. How in APEX/Java ...
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Salesforce AJAX API not allowing ContentVersion Create
I've this code to create a Content record from AJAX toolkit api:
And when I click upload of file this is the SOAP packet that gets posted and in return I get this error:
<se:Envelope ...
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Issue when creating a new Recurring Donation through Salesforce API
Recently I have hit an error as described below:
Error: CANNOT_INSERT_UPDATE_ACTIVATE_ENTITY Message: npe03.RecurringDonations: execution of AfterInsert caused by: System.NullPointerException: ...
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Is packageVersion an interface reference only, or also implementation?
In testing some integration hooks in our managed package, I was somewhat surprised by the behavior I saw today.
We have a managed package global class. It looks something like this:
global abstract ...
