Salesforce Download

Overview

The Salesforce Download Snap downloads a file attached to a Salesforce object record by passing an Attachment ID or Content Data ID.

Note: To use newer Salesforce objects, use the latest API versions where those objects are available.


Supported Accounts

Prerequisites

  • A valid account with the required permissions.

Snap views

Type Description Examples of upstream and downstream Snaps
Input

This Snap has at most one document input view.

A stream of documents which supply values to evaluate the ID expression.
Output

This Snap has exactly one document output view.

Document data with a byte array value for the content key and also with a ContentType key-value pair.
Learn more about Error handling.

Snap settings

Legend:
  • Expression icon (): Allows using pipeline parameters to set field values dynamically (if enabled). SnapLogic Expressions are not supported. If disabled, you can provide a static value.
  • SnapGPT (): Generates SnapLogic Expressions based on natural language using SnapGPT. Learn more.
  • Suggestion icon (): Populates a list of values dynamically based on your Snap configuration. You can select only one attribute at a time using the icon. Type into the field if it supports a comma-separated list of values.
  • Upload : Uploads files. Learn more.
Learn more about the icons in the Snap settings dialog.
Field/Field set Description
Label

String

Required. Specify a unique name for the Snap. Modify this to be more appropriate, especially if more than one of the same Snaps is in the pipeline.

Default value: Salesforce Download
Service Version

String/Suggestion		 Required. Specify the version number associated with the Salesforce service that you want to connect to. Alternatively, click the Suggestion icon to fetch the list of versions and select the desired version.

Default value: 52.0

Example: 52.0
File Type

String/Expression/ Suggestion		 Required. Specify the type of file you want to download. Alternatively, click the Suggestion icon to fetch the list of associated files.
Note: You can also specify an expression that will be evaluated into an attachment ID or content data ID, from each input document. The ID is found at the end of the URL of the file.

The available options are:

  • Attachment: Downloads the file as an attachment.
  • Content Version: Downloads the version of the content.
  • Document: Downloads the file as a document.

Default value: Attachment

Example: Document
ID

String/Expression		 Required. Specify the ID of the object that you want to download.

Default value: N/A

Example: $id
Snap execution

Dropdown list
Choose one of the three modes in which the Snap executes. Available options are:
  • Validate & Execute. Performs limited execution of the Snap and generates a data preview during pipeline validation. Subsequently, performs full execution of the Snap (unlimited records) during pipeline runtime.
  • Execute only. Performs full execution of the Snap during pipeline execution without generating preview data.
  • Disabled. Disables the Snap and all Snaps that are downstream from it.

Troubleshooting

Error Cause Resolution
404 Error: The requested resource could not be found. The ID field does not exist or is not accessible. The input data should be valid. Check if your input data is valid.