Creating A Connected App In Salesforce

What is a Connected App? #

Quality Clouds authenticates with Salesforce by creating a Connected App and obtaining an OAuth token to access your org via the REST and Metadata APIs.

Connected Apps add additional levels of control, allowing administrators explicit control over who can use the application, and various security policies to be enforced by the application. 

 What is a Connected App?

Creating a Connected App #

→ To create a Connected App

1. Use Salesforce to create a new connected app.
   • In Lightning Experience, use the App Manager to create connected apps. From Setup, enter App in the Quick Find box, then select App Manager. Click New Connected App.
   • In Salesforce Classic, from Setup, enter Apps in the Quick Find box, then select Apps (under Build | Create). Under Connected Apps, click New.
     
2. Fill in the following information:
   • Connected App Name: QualityClouds
   • API Name: QualityClouds
   • Contact Email: help@qualityclouds.com
   • Contact Phone: +44 20 3290 0456
   • Description: QualityClouds connection for REST API calls
3. Select Enable OAuth Settings.
4. Set the Callback URL to: https://scan.qualityclouds.com/sf_instance/code_callback.
5. From Available OAuth Scopes, add Manage User Data via APIs (api), and Perform requests on you behalf at any time (refresh_token, offline_access). These settings allow Quality Clouds to access the logged-in user’s account using APIs, such as REST API and Bulk API. They also allow Quality Clouds to refresh the token if it has expired, up to the expiration date of the refresh token itself, which can be configured on the Connected App.
6. Disable the checkbox ‘Require Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) Extension for Supported Authorization Flows‘.
7. Select ‘Enable Client Credentials Flow’
8. Click Save and continue.

The Consumer Key is created and displayed, and the Consumer Secret is created (click the link to reveal it).

Note the Consumer Key and the Consumer Secret values to use it in the setup of your Salesforce environment in Quality Clouds. 

You can now continue the set-up by defining your orgs in Quality Clouds.