Examples

Example automations using the Salesforce BDK Book.

Complete Workflow Example

Here's a comprehensive example showing contact management:

# 1. Discover the object you want to work with
discover "contact" from salesforce

# 2. Retrieve existing contacts
retrieve some contacts from salesforce
  the limit is 5

# 3. Create a new contact
create a json
use the above as the body
set the body's "LastName" to "Smith"
set the body's "FirstName" to "John"
set the body's "Email" to "[email protected]"
set the body's "Phone" to "555-1234"

create a contact in salesforce
  the body is the body

# 4. Update the created contact
use the above as the created contact
set the created contact's "Title" to "Sales Manager"

update the contact in salesforce

# 5. Upload an attachment
upload an attachment to the contact
  the file is the file
  the file name is "business_card.jpg"

# 6. Download attachments
download some attachments from the contact

# 7. Work with reports
retrieve some reports from salesforce whose Name contains "Contact"

# 8. Send notification email
send an email in salesforce
  the receivers are "[email protected]"
  the subject is "New Contact Created"
  the body is "A new contact has been added to Salesforce"