When should I use Heroku connect?
Heroku Connect is used in conjunction with the awesome Heroku Postgres database. You can replicate data to and from Salesforce into this SQL database, or you can proxy it from the Heroku Postgres database into Salesforce using Salesforce Connect, which we cover in the next unit.
What can Heroku connect offer functionality wise?
Heroku Connect
- Seamless Heroku and Salesforce data synchronization. Heroku Connect makes it easy for you to build Heroku apps that share data with your Salesforce deployment.
- Build apps that span Heroku and Salesforce.
- Heroku External Objects.
- High compliance apps using Salesforce data.
- Developer simplicity and scale.
What are the two features of Heroku connect?
Heroku Connect features include:
- Ability to access Salesforce data via SQL. SQL is the ‘lingua franca’ of developers and data–it’s the common denominator of most application development.
- Optimized Force.com API interactions.
- Performance and scale.
- Set it and forget it simplicity.
How does heroku connect to database?
- Heroku CLI plugin.
- Endpoints.
- Step 1: Create a Heroku app and Heroku PostgreSQL database.
- Step 2: Create the Heroku Connect add-on.
- Step 3: Link the new add-on to your Heroku user account.
- Step 4: Configure the database key and schema for the connection.
- Step 5: Authenticate the connection to your Salesforce Org.
How do I access my heroku apps?
Enter the following command: heroku ps:scale web=0 -a . The Heroku CLI gives you some feedback, saying something like, “Scaling dynos… done, now running web at 0:Standard-1x.” Now when you run heroku apps:info with the name of your app, you see that the value for dynos is blank.
How is Heroku data synced with Salesforce data?
App data, product data, sensor data, customer data — any data in Heroku Postgres can be integrated into Salesforce with a simple point and click configuration. Heroku External Objects provides a new architectural option for building engagement apps that create unified customer experiences across business systems.
What kind of object does Heroku connect support?
The complete list of objects that Heroku Connect supports for your version of Salesforce is available on the Supported Salesforce Standard Objects page. The Bulk API is not available in versions before Salesforce API v39 and thus you should use at least v39 with Heroku Connect.
What happens when you authenticate to a Salesforce Org?
You authenticate to a Salesforce org as part of the configuration process for Heroku Connect. When you authenticate Heroku Connect to an org, the mappings you create are specific to that org. This includes both the structure of the underlying database tables and the data that is synchronized between Salesforce and the database.
How can I upgrade my application to Heroku connect?
You can use the heroku addons command to see if your application already has Heroku Connect provisioned and the current plan: If you’re operating inside a Heroku team with a paid plan entitlement, you can upgrade by using the Edit plan option in the Heroku Dashboard or using the CLI: