Salesloft Connection

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Salesloft is a sales engagement platform facilitating communication, automation, and collaboration for sales teams.

This topic describes how to authenticate to Salesloft and configure any necessary connection properties in the Salesloft connection connector.

Prerequisites

Before You Connect

Salesloft uses the OAuth and APIKey authentication standard. OAuth requires the authenticating user to interact with Salesloft using the browser. The provider facilitates this in various ways as described below.

Authenticate a Salesloft Account

Authenticate a Salesloft Account using ine of the below methods.

OAuth

For OAuth authentication, it’s necessary to create an OAuth app.

Create a Custom OAuth App for a process as follows:

Complete the following procedure to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL.

  1. Create an App

Create an app to obtain the OAuth client credentials, the OAuthClientId and OAuthClientSecret.

  1. Set a Callback URL

After creating your application, define your app’s CallbackURL:

  • In your app settings, go to OAuth & Permissions

  • In the Redirect URLs section click Add a New Redirect URL.

  • Set the callback URL to http://localhost:33333, or another port of your choice. Ensure that you save the URL.


API Key

Alternatively, authenticate with an APIKey. Provision an API key from the Salesloft user interface:

https://accounts.salesloft.com/oauth/applications

You will receive a Key which will be used when issuing requests.


Connection Configuration

Each connection property available in the Salesloft connector is explained below.


Connection Name

The name of the connection to be created should be provided. This is the name that will display on the list of available connections.


Auth Scheme

Whether to use APIKey Authentication or OAuth Authentication when connecting to SalesLoft.

Possible Values:

  • OAuth: Set this to perform OAuth authentication.

  • APIKey: Set this to perform Token Based Authentication via the APIKey property.

API Key

If Auth Scheme is set to API Key, this field will appear. Provide the API key used for accessing your SalesLoft account.


Enable SSL

Option for creating the connection with SSL enabled.

Upload Keystore File

Option to upload keystore file.


Add Configuration: Additional properties can be added using this option as key-value pairs.


After entering all the details, click on the TEST button.

If the connection service identification and authentication details are provided correctly, a success message stating “connection available” is generated.

Click on the CREATE button to save the changes.

If the details are incorrect or the server is down, you will get a message “Connection unavailable”.

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