Updates a Salesforce Contact record with the given parameters and returns the Contact Id of the updated Contact record.
This handler essentially has two phases: authentication and record creation.
The handler uses the SOAP API login method to retrieve the authentication details that are required for making the REST API requests. The required authentication values are instance and session id, these two values are retrieved by the login() helper method in the handler.
The handler uses the REST API to update the Salesforce record. The Salesforce record simply contains mappings provided by the @field_values instance variable. The handler's parameters are mapped to Salesforce fields in the node.xml as show here:
- Salutation => Salutation
- First Name => FirstName
- Last Name => LastName
- Title => Title
- Department => Department
- Mailing Street => MailingStreet
- Mailing City => MailingCity
- Mailing State/Province => MailingState
- Mailing Zip/Postal Code => MailingPostalCode
- Mailing Country => MailingCountry
- Phone => Phone
- Home Phone => HomePhone
- Mobile => MobilePhone
- Fax => Fax
- Email => Email
- Description => Description
| Name | Description | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| username | The username of the account that will be used for record manipulation. | |
| password | The password of the account that will be used for record manipulation | |
| token | The security token associated with the account used for record manipulation To reset this value, log into Saleforce using the desired account and navigate to Setup -> My Personal Information -> Reset Security Token. A new token will be emailed to you. |
| Name | Description | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Contact Id | The Id of the Salesforce Contact record that will be updated | |
| Salutation | Sets the Salutation field of the Contact record | |
| First Name | Sets the First Name field of the Contact record | |
| Last Name | Sets the Last Name field of the Contact record | |
| Title | Sets the Title field of the Contact record | |
| Department | Sets the Department field of the Contact record | |
| Mailing Street | Sets the Mailing Street field of the Contact record | |
| Mailing City | Sets the Mailing City field of the Contact record | |
| Mailing State/Province | Sets the Mailing State/Province field of the Contact record | |
| Mailing Zip/Postal Code | Sets the Mailing Zip/Postal Code field of the Contact record | |
| Mailing Country | Sets the Mailing Country field of the Contact record | |
| Phone | Sets the Phone field of the Contact record | |
| Home Phone | Sets the Home Phone field of the Contact record | |
| Mobile | Sets the Mobile field of the Contact record | |
| Fax | Sets the Fax field of the Contact record | |
| Sets the Email field of the Contact record | ||
| Description | Sets the Description field of the Contact record |
SalesforceContactUpdate_V1 (2011-04-28)
- Initial version. See README for details.