Meera R Nair - Salesforce Insights

 As part of the Spring 23 release, Salesforce introduced a beta feature, using which we can make HTTP callouts from flow without writing a single line of code. This is definitely great news for all the flow lovers. Let us see this using a Google Blogger API. 1. Introduction I want to consume Google Blogger API in a screen flow to see my blogger-related details. Let us see the step-by-step approach to set up this 2. Google API Access Set Up 1. Open your Google console   2. Create a new project 3. Open the Consent screen from Navigation Menu and do the basic set up 4. Add the basic detail including the App name, developer email, test user, etc and create the App 5. Once consent setup is completed, go to Credentials and create a new credential 6. We are going to consume OAuth authentication 7. Give a name for now and save it. We can update other details later. 8. You can see your client id and client secret. Take note of these values 9. Next step is to enable Blogger API for cons...

 In this post, let us see what is Change Data Capture, when to use them and the different subscription approaches. 1. What is Change Data Capture Change Data Capture is similar to Platform Events. This can be used to keep your external system in sync with Salesforce data. It is supported for all custom Objects and some standard Objects.  The supported standard object list can be found here . Once enabled for a particular object, whenever that object record is created, updated, deleted or undeleted, an event will be fired to the event bus. This fired event will be available for 72 hours on the bus and an external application can subscribe to this. How it is different from Platform events? 1. In platform events, we can define our own fields and structure whereas CDC is applied on existing Objects 2. You can publish platform events from Flows, Apex, and process but CDC is fired by default on record changes How to Enable CDC? Go to setup->Integrations->Change Data Capture He...