Work with Campaign and SFDC crm-sfdc
Learn how to configure Campaign CRM connector to connect Campaign v8 to Salesforce.com.
Once configuration is done, data synchronization between systems is carried out via a dedicated workflow activity. Learn more.
Follow the steps below to configure a dedicated external account to import and export Salesforce data into 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign.
Create the connection new-sfdc-external-account
First, you must create the Salesforce external account.
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Browse the Administration > Platform > External accounts node of the Campaign explorer and create an external account.
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Select Salesforce.com external account in the Type section.
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Enter settings to enable connection.
To configure the Salesforce CRM external account to work with 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign, you need to provide the following details:
- Enter your Salesforce login in the Account field.
- Enter your Salesforce password.
- You can ignore the Client identifier field.
- Copy/paste your Salesforce Security token
- Select your API version. Supported SFDC API versions are listed in Campaign Compatibility matrix.
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Select the Enable option to activate the account in Campaign.
Select tables to synchronize sfdc-create-tables
You can now configure tables to synchronize.
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Click the Salesforce CRM configuration wizard….
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Select the tables to synchronize and start the process.
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Check the schema generated in 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign in the Administration > Configuration > Data schemas node.
Example of a Salesforce schema imported in Campaign:
Synchronize enumerations sfdc-enum-sync
Once the schema is created, you can synchronize enumerations automatically from Salesforce to 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign.
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Open the assistant from the Synchronizing enumerations… link.
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Select the 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign enumeration that matches the Salesforce enumeration.
You can replace all values of an 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign enumeration with those of the CRM: to do this, select Yes in the Replace column. -
Click Next and then Start to start importing the enumerations.
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Browse the Administration > Platform > Enumerations node to check imported values. Learn more about enumerations in this page.
51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign and Salesforce.com are now connected. You can set up data synchronization between the two systems.
To synchronize data between 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Campaign data and SFDC, create a workflow and use the CRM connector activity.
Learn more about data synchronization in this page.