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Connect Salesforce to Realm to make cases, opportunities, knowledge articles, and other CRM data searchable. Navigate to Settings > Data sources and click Connect on Salesforce, or click Manage if already connected.

Connecting Salesforce

Click Connect on the Salesforce data source page. You’ll be redirected to Salesforce’s OAuth flow. Log in and allow access. The person connecting should be a Salesforce admin with full read access to the objects you want to sync (e.g. Account, Opportunity, Contact, Contract, Order, Case, Campaign, Lead, Product).

What gets synced

ContentSynced
Standard objects (Accounts, Opportunities, Contacts, Cases, Leads, Campaigns, Contracts, Orders, Products)Configurable
Custom objectsConfigurable
Knowledge articlesYes
NotesYes
Activities (tasks and events)Yes
Email messagesYes
File attachments (ContentDocuments)Yes

Configuring objects and fields

From the data source page, you can configure:
  • Which objects to sync - Select from standard and custom Salesforce objects.
  • Which fields to include - Choose which properties/fields are synced for each object. Focus on fields that contain useful searchable content rather than system fields.
  • Record type filtering - Filter which record types to include for each object.
Salesforce object selection UI with toggles for each object
Salesforce field selection UI showing individual field toggles

Permissions

All synced Salesforce data is searchable for users with a Salesforce account in your organization. You can override this by switching to “Everyone in this organization” on the data source settings page, which makes all synced Salesforce data visible to all Realm users.