Salesforce Chatter

The Lyftron Provider for Salesforce Chatter offers the most natural way to access Salesforce Chatter data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing Salesforce Chatter data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s Salesforce Chatter data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months

The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
• Real-time access to Salesforce Chatter.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for Salesforce Chatter, Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron

Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps

Create your Salesforce Chatter connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:

Step1. Add your connection

Click on Connect section on the left panel →  Click on Add Connection button

Step2. Select your connector

In the connector selection panel, search and click Salesforce Chatter for your connection 

Step3. Enter your connection details

In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish Salesforce Chatter connection with Lyftron.

InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=[your_OAuthClientId];OAuthClientSecret=[your_OAuthClientSecret];CallbackURL=[your_callback_url];

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
InitiateOAuth	GETANDREFRESH	Required
OAuthClientId	Your Salesforce Chatter OAuthClientId	Required
OAuthClientSecret	Your Salesforce Chatter OAuthClientSecret	Required
CallbackURL	https://localhost:34343	Required
Logfile**	Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file.  [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx	Optional
Verbosity**	Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging	Optional

** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.

If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.

Step4. Test your connection

Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.

 Step5. Save your connection

Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron Salesforce Chatter connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

Views are composed of columns and pseudo columns. Views are similar to tables in the way that data is represented; however, views do not support updates. Entities that are represented as views are typically read-only entities. Often, a stored procedure is available to update the data if such functionality is applicable to the data source.

Queries can be executed against a view as if it were a normal table, and the data that comes back is similar in that regard.

Name	Type	Description
Announcements	Views	Get the announcements for the specified parent or get information about an announcement.
Comments	Views	Retrieve the Comments feed.
Communities	Views	Retrieve community details.
Files	Views	Retrieve File details.
Folders	Views	Query Folders.
Followers	Views	Retrieve a list of other users that are following the specified user. Restricts results to the authenticated user by default.
Following	Views	Retrieve the items, such as other users, files, and opportunities that the user is following (is subscribed to). Restricts results to the authenticated user by default.
Groups	Views	Retrieve Group details.
Topics	Views	Retrieve Topics on SalesforceChatter.
Users	Views	Retrieve User details.