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Add a connection string to the S4S system Web service to the <connectionString> element of App_Config/ConnectionStrings.config. It  

For all Salesforce environments the connection string should look as followslike:

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<connectionStrings>
  <add name="S4SConnString" connectionString="S4S:user id=user;password=password;environment=mycompany.my.salesforce.com" />
</connectionStrings>

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  • Each string starts with the “S4S” prefix.
  • The prefix is followed by the login credentials to for the Salesforce partner API.

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Key       

Description

user id

The Salesforce user name username that will be used to establish the Partner API session

password

The password for the Partner API user.
If the servers IP address isn’t trusted by the Salesforce Organization being connected to the users user's security token can be appended to the password.

token

(Optional) As an alternative to appending the users user's security token to the password in the connection string, it can be defined separately to provide the same functionality. Learn more about how to reset and get your security token.

environment(Optional

) The type of The domain for the Salesforce environment being connected to. Defaults to Production if unspecified which will also work for developer edition organizations if required.

Possible values:

  • Production
  • DeveloperEdition
  • Sandbox
  • Pre_release

    This should be the My Domain domain for the Salesforce org. More information

    Example connection strings:

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    S4S:user id=<user_name>;password=<user_password>
    S4S:user id=<user_name>;password=<user_password><user_security_token>
    S4S:user id=<user_name>;password=<user_password>;token=<user_security_token>
    S4S:user id=<user_name>;password=<user_password>;environment=<binding_environment>

    The connection string can optionally define the environment to be connected to by appending the following:

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    ;environment=<bindingEnvironment>

    Permitted values for the binding environment are one of the following four strings or an endpoint url:

    • Production
      connects to login.salesforce.com (Default)
    • DeveloperEdition
      connects to login.salesforce.com
    • Sandbox
      connects to test.salesforce.com
    • Pre_release
      connects to prerellogin.pre.salesforce.com

    The binding environment can also be the string login.salesforce.com required for the Salesforce API endpoint change on 1st of January 2016.  


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