The Salesforce Connector extracts metadata from the Salesforce cloud platform using REST APIs. Extracted metadata includes objects, object fields, reports, report fields, and lineage between object fields and report fields.
OAuth2 authentication is required. As such, you must configure a "Connected App" in Salesforce. In addition to a username, password and security token, a Connected App provides the required client id and client secret. Your organization's Salesforce administrator will need to determine which application permissions they want to give.
To obtain the Connected App's client id and secret:
- In Salesforce, go to .
- Find the app in the list and click View.
The client id and secret will be listed as "Consumer key" and "Consumer Secret".