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You can use OAuth 2.0 client credentials to integrate AEM Forms with the Salesforce application. OAuth 2.0 client credentials are a standard and secure method for direct communication without user involvement.

Workflow while setting communication between AEM Forms and Salesforce application

AEM Forms exchanges the client credentials (consumer key and consumer secret), defined in the Salesforce connected application, to obtain an access token.

AEM as a Cloud Service offers various out of the box submit actions for handling form submissions. You can learn more about these options in the Adaptive Form Submit Action article.

There are multiple benefits of using OAuth 2.0 client credentials for authentication over Authorization Code Flow authentication:

  • OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication allows more than five connections per user.
  • AEM data source configuration continues working on deactivation, access changes, password update for an AEM user.

Prerequisites prerequisites

Before setting communication between a Salesforce application and an AEM environment:

Configure Salesforce application using OAuth 2.0 Client Credential flow steps-to-create-aem-datasource-configuration

To connect Adaptive Form to Salesforce application using OAuth 2.0 client credential authentication settings, perform following steps:

  1. Log in to your Author instance.

  2. Go to Tools > Cloud Services > Data Sources.

  3. Select the configuration folder.

  4. Click Create and the Create Data Source Configuration appears.

  5. Specify the Title and select the Service Type as RESTful Service.

  6. Click Next.

  7. Select the Swagger Source as File.

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    When the swagger file is selected, the Scheme, the Host name and the Base path are populated automatically.

  8. Upload the created swagger file from your local machine by clicking Browse.

  9. Select the Authentication Type as OAuth 2.0 and the Authentication Settings panel appears.

  10. Select the Grant Type as Client Credential.

  11. Specify the Client Id and Client Secret obtained from the Salesforce connected app.

  12. Specify the Access Token URL in format
    https://[MyDomainName].my.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token.

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    Each organization has its own specific domain name.

  13. Click Test Connection.

  14. If the connection succeeds, click the Create button.

After configuring the Salesforce application, you can use the configuration while creating form data models. For more information, see Create form data model. Configure the Form Data Model Submit Action for an Adaptive Form to send data to Salesforce applications.

For more information about creating and using Form Data Model in business workflows, see Data Integration.

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