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Get started by creating a profile and replicate of your Salesforce instance to different databases.  Follow the Steps below for initial setup guidelines.


Create Profile 

  1. Login to the local host of DBSync Salesforce Replication instance using respective username and password.

  2. Get started by clicking on the Add App to create a profile for configure replication.

  • Enter the desired profile name and click Save.

  •  New profile will now be created.

  • Click on the profile name. 

  • You will be redirected to setup your Salesforce instance. 

Salesforce Setup

There are two ways to setup your Salesforce profile

           1. Enter the "username" and "password" credential to manually . Save and Test the connection. 

  Note : Environment and soap end details  would be pre-filled. Do not change unless necessary.

2. Click on Connect to Salesforce for instant web authentication.

Now click on Next  to Setup Database

Database Setup

  • Select the Type of database to which you wish to replicate the Salesforce instance linked in the previous step.

  • To start with, the database credentials of the user are required such as  Host, Port, Username, Password, Database name, and Schema.

  • Based all the details entered by the user, URL field gets auto-filled. 

Now click on Next  to select the Objects of your Salesforce instance. 

Object Selection & Run Command

  • Once, a user has connected to Salesforce then objects will get synced and it will show on the objects tab.

  • Select any "Salesforce objects" to sync into the database objects table section as shown below.

  • Select the object fields you want to sync into the database from the "Available Fields" section and use the "exclude fields" section to filter out fields you don't want to sync into the database.

  • Click the RUN button and select Clean Copy command to get an exact copy of your  Salesforce selected objects.

  


Attributes of Run Command 

Run Process

Actions Performed 

Update Schema

Creates source apps schema into database for the selected source apps objects.

Clean Copy

Inserts a clean copy of Salesforce object records into respective database tables & columns.

Source to DB

Performs incremental sync from Salesforce to the database based on the changes/edits made in the Salesforce

DB to Source

Performs incremental sync from Database to the Salesforce based on the changes/edits made in the Database

Metadata Backup

Backs up your metadata for the objects selected from you Salesforce instance