Today, I want to capture notes that I learnt from trailhead academy on connecting postman to a salesforce org.

To make postman allow changes at Salesforce org, we have to enable CORS policy in Salesforce. See below what does CORS mean.

CORS- Cross Origin Resource Sharing

It is a browser feature that controls how resources are requested from one site to another site. By configuring CORS, it enables special permissions for other external websites to access our salesforce data. In this case, we are enabling CORS for postman to access salesforce.

• From setup ==> search for CORS ==> Add https://*.postman.co and https://*.postman.com URL
• After that, in postman desktop -Do below steps one by one.
• Create a separate workspace for Salesforce APIs to play around.
• Search for Salesforce APIs. It does list out all the available collections.
• Fork “Salesforce Platform API” and it will available to your local postman workspace.
• After that, go to “Authorization” click on “Generate token” and copy “instance” URL.
• Configure “_endpoint” value from variable tab as “instance” URL
• All set and that’s it. You can play around whatever requests that are available.

Today, I want to capture notes that I learnt from trailhead academy on connecting postman to a salesforce org.

To make postman allow changes at Salesforce org, we have to enable CORS policy in Salesforce. See below what does CORS mean.

CORS- Cross Origin Resource Sharing

It is a browser feature that controls how resources are requested from one site to another site. By configuring CORS, it enables special permissions for other external websites to access our salesforce data. In this case, we are enabling CORS for postman to access salesforce.

• From setup ==> search for CORS ==> Add https://*.postman.co and https://*.postman.com URL
• After that, in postman desktop -Do below steps one by one.
• Create a separate workspace for Salesforce APIs to play around.
• Search for Salesforce APIs. It does list out all the available collections.
• Fork “Salesforce Platform API” and it will available to your local postman workspace.
• After that, go to “Authorization” click on “Generate token” and copy “instance” URL.
• Configure “_endpoint” value from variable tab as “instance” URL
• All set and that’s it. You can play around whatever requests that are available.