Omnata with Salesforce Connect (External Objects)
This is the most common and full featured way to use Omnata
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This is the most common and full featured way to use Omnata
Last updated
Omnata Connect is a custom adapter for Salesforce Connect which allows tables and views from a Snowflake account to be accessed as External Objects.
Whenever an External Object is accessed, the adapter creates a SQL query, executes the query in your data platform via a REST API call, and translates the result back into native Salesforce data types.
External Objects virtualise queried data on-platform without replicating it.
External Objects behave very similarly to Standard and Custom Objects, but do not offer identical functionality for some platform features.
To understand the differences, refer to Salesforce Platform Features Supported by Salesforce Connect in the Salesforce docs.
The below diagram outlines how Omnata fits between Salesforce and your cloud data warehouse.
Displaying a list of related records on a Salesforce object page
Displaying the field values of individual records
Creating reports using standard Salesforce reporting functionality
Incorporating data from cloud data warehouse tables into Salesforce Flows
Incorporating data from cloud data warehouse tables into Einstein chatbot responses
Per the Salesforce documentation, the following data types are supported by Salesforce Connect:
BOOLEAN_TYPE
Boolean
DATETIME_TYPE
Date/time
EXTERNAL_LOOKUP_TYPE
External lookup relationship
INDIRECT_LOOKUP_TYPE
Indirect lookup relationship
LOOKUP_TYPE
Lookup relationship
NUMBER_TYPE
Number
STRING_LONG_TYPE
Long text area
STRING_SHORT_TYPE
Text area
URL_TYPE
URL
