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How to create connected app

How to create connected app

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How to create connected app

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Hello guys welcome back. So in this tutorial I want to give you an overview of all the steps that we need to do in order to call the ingestion API from Postman. So just like any other API when we are calling it from an external system we first need to establish the connection between the external system and Salesforce and we are trying to insert data into data cloud which is basically a tenant inside of the Salesforce cloud right. So we have to do two steps here. The first step that we need to do is we need to create a connected app and with the help of connected app we will get the consumer key and the secret which we will use in our username password flow. Once we go ahead and get all this information the second step is to get the access token for the Salesforce. In order to connect to the Salesforce we are going to use the consumer key password all of that and in return it is going to give you the access token. That way, we have established the connection between the external…

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