Introduction to external services

1. Farmington Hills Salesforce Developer User
Group
Salesforce Apex Hours :-Introduction
to External Services
#SalesforceApexHours #FarmingtonHillsSFDCDug
Speaker :- Shruti Sridharan, Amit Chaudhary
Date :- Saturday, FEB 10, 2018 10:00 AM EST ( 8:30 PM IST)
Venue/Link :- https://zoom.us/j/375169488

2. Who am I ?
Amit Chaudhary (Salesforce MVP)
• Active on Salesforce Developer Community
• Blogging at http://amitsalesforce.blogspot.in/
• Co-Organizer of :- FarmingtonHillsSFDCDug

3. Our Speaker
Shruti Sridharan (www.shrutisridharan.com)
• Speaker at various Dreamin Events, UGs, DUGs
• Blogging at http://www.salesforcechronicle.com
• Co-Organizer of :- Kerala Salesforce WIT
• Twitter Handle:- @shruti4chess

4. Agenda
▶ What Problem Are We Solving
▶ How Can We Solve It
▶ Let’s Welcome – External Services (Beta)
▶ How Does It Work
▶ A Currency Converter
▶ Q & A

5. “What if you could now start doing
API Integrations without any code!”
—Clicks and No Code!

6. What Problem Are We
Solving
The Problem

7. What Problem Are We Solving
 Nowadays there is an API Integration in
every Org
 Development effort that goes into every
implementation
 Repetitive Code
 Not Admin friendly even with the
advent of Processes

8. Maintain
Endpoints
Handling
Auth
Unit
Tests Lot
of
Code
What Problem Are We Solving

9. How Can We Solve It
The Solution

10. How Can We Solve It
ENDPOINTS AUTHENTICATION
APEX REUSABILITY
Manage Them All Handle Auth (OAuth, API Key…)
Zero Development Effort Use in Apex, Flows, Processes

12. Let’s Welcome – External
Services (Beta)
The Hero

13. External Services (Beta)
Plug &
Play
Clicks &
No Code
Everywhere –
Processes,
Flows
Everything is taken care
of –
Endpoints,
Auth..

14. How Does It Work
The Working

15. How Does It Work
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Write a Schema (Swagger or Integrant) for your API
Setup a Named Credential for Authentication
Import the Schema (JSON)
Select the Named Credential
Voila – You have Actions created for all the Verbs!

16. Demo
Consuming the Fixer.IO API for Currency Conversion

17. Hang On! Points To Note
It’s Beta Still! So hold tight.

18. Hang On! Points To Note
 Doesn’t Support Complex Schema as
O/P
 Doesn’t Support APIs with No Inputs
 It’s Beta - There could be gotchas!

19. A Currency Converter
Use Case

20. A Currency Converter
Convert Amount to another
Currency
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Fixer.io
Visual Workflow + External Services
Lightning Ready!

21. Demo
A Currency Converter

22. REFERENCES
Deepak K Anand
Moral Support, Guidance, Suggestions
Joshua Hoskins
For Finding Fixer.IO
And our wonderful #SalesforceOhana
Warmth, love and affection!

23. Thank You
Thank you for attending the session.

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