Receiving events from Salesforce - Amazon EventBridge
Receiving events from Salesforce using Event Bus RelayReceiving events from Salesforce using Amazon AppFlow
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Receiving events from Salesforce

You can use Amazon EventBridge to receive events from Salesforce in following ways:

  • By using Salesforce's Event Bus Relay feature to receive events directly on an EventBridge partner event bus.

  • By configuring a flow in Amazon AppFlow that uses Salesforce as a data source. Amazon AppFlow then sends Salesforce events to EventBridge by using a partner event bus.

You can send event information to Salesforce using API destinations. Once the event is sent to Salesforce, it can be processed by Flows or Apex triggers. For more information about setting up a Salesforce API destination, see Tutorial: Create a connection to Salesforce as an API destination.

Receiving events from Salesforce using Event Bus Relay

Step 1: Set up Salesforce Event Bus Relay and an EventBridge partner event source

When you create an event relay configuration on Salesforce, Salesforce creates a partner event source in EventBridge in the pending state.

To configure Salesforce Event Bus Relay

  1. Set Up a REST API Tool

  2. (Optional) Define a Platform Event

  3. Create a Channel for a Custom Platform Event

  4. Create a Channel Member to Associate the Custom Platform Event

  5. Create a Named Credential

  6. Create an Event Relay Configuration

Step 2: Activate Salesforce partner event source in the EventBridge console and start the event relay

  1. Open the Partner event sources page in the EventBridge console.

  2. Select the Salesforce partner event source that you created in Step 1.

  3. Choose Associate with event bus.

  4. Validate the name of the partner event bus.

  5. Choose Associate.

  6. Start the Event Relay

Now that you've set up and started the Event Bus Relay and configured the partner event source you can create an EventBridge rule that reacts to events to filter and send the data to a target.

Receiving events from Salesforce using Amazon AppFlow

Amazon AppFlow encapsulates events from Salesforce in an EventBridge event envelope. The following example shows a Salesforce event received by an EventBridge partner event bus.

{
    "version": "0",
    "id": "5c42b99e-e005-43b3-c744-07990c50d2cc",
    "detail-type": "AccountChangeEvent",
    "source": "aws.partner/appflow.test/salesforce.com/364228160620/CustomSF-Source-Final",
    "account": "000000000",
    "time": "2020-08-20T18:25:51Z",
    "region": "us-west-2",
    "resources": [],
    "detail": {
        "ChangeEventHeader": {
            "commitNumber": 248197218874,
            "commitUser": "0056g000003XW7AAAW",
            "sequenceNumber": 1,
            "entityName": "Account",
            "changeType": "UPDATE",
            "changedFields": [
                "LastModifiedDate",
                "Region__c"
            ],
            "changeOrigin": "com/salesforce/api/soap/49.0;client=SfdcInternalAPI/",
            "transactionKey": "000035af-b239-0581-9f14-461e4187de11",
            "commitTimestamp": 1597947935000,
            "recordIds": [
                "0016g00000MLhLeAAL"
            ]
        },
        "LastModifiedDate": "2020-08-20T18:25:35.000Z",
        "Region__c": "America"
    }
}

Step 1: Configure Amazon AppFlow to use Salesforce as a partner event source

To send events to EventBridge, you first need to configure Amazon AppFlow to use Salesforce as a partner event source.

  1. In the Amazon AppFlow console, choose Create flow.

  2. In the Flow details section, in Flow name enter a name for your flow.

  3. (Optional) Enter a description for the flow and then choose Next.

  4. Under Source details, choose Salesforce from the Source name drop-down, and then choose Connect to create a new connection.

  5. In the Connect to Salesforce dialog box, choose either Production or Sandbox for the Salesforce environment.

  6. In the Connection name field, enter a unique name for the connection, and then choose Continue.

  7. In the Salesforce dialog box, do the following:

    1. Enter your Salesforce sign-in credentials to log in to Salesforce.

    2. Select Salesforce events for the types of data for Amazon AppFlow to process.

  8. In the Choose Salesforce event drop-down, select the type of event to send to EventBridge.

  9. For a destination, select Amazon EventBridge.

  10. Select Create new partner event source.

  11. (Optional) Specify a unique suffix for the partner event source.

  12. Choose Generate partner event source.

  13. Choose an Amazon S3 bucket to store event payload files that are larger than 256 KB.

  14. In the Flow trigger section, ensure that Run flow on event is selected. This setting ensures that the flow is executed when a new Salesforce event occurs.

  15. Choose Next.

  16. For field mapping, select Map all fields directly. Alternatively, you can select the fields that are of interest from the Source field name list.

    For more information about field mapping, see Map data fields.

  17. Choose Next.

  18. (Optional) Configure filters for data fields in Amazon AppFlow.

  19. Choose Next.

  20. Review the settings and then choose Create flow.

With the flow configured, Amazon AppFlow creates a new partner event source that you then need to associate with a partner event bus in your account.

Step 2: Configure EventBridge to receive Salesforce events

Ensure that the Amazon AppFlow flow that is triggered from Salesforce events with EventBridge as a destination is configured before following instructions in this section.

To configure EventBridge to receive Salesforce events

  1. Open the Partner event sources page in the EventBridge console.

  2. Select the Salesforce partner event source that you created in Step 1.

  3. Choose Associate with event bus.

  4. Validate the name of the partner event bus.

  5. Choose Associate.

  6. In the Amazon AppFlow console, open the flow you created and choose Activate flow.

  7. Open the Rules page in the EventBridge console.

  8. Choose Create rule.

  9. Enter a unique name for the rule.

  10. Choose Event pattern in the Define pattern section.

  11. For Event matching pattern, select Pre-defined pattern by service.

  12. For Service provider section, select All Events.

  13. For Select event bus, choose Custom or partner event bus.

  14. Select the event bus that you associated with the Amazon AppFlow partner event source.

  15. For Select targets, choose the Amazon service that is to act when the rule runs. One rule can have up to five targets.

  16. Choose Create.

The target service receives all Salesforce events configured for your account. To filter the events or send some events to different targets, you can use content-based filtering with event patterns.

Note

For events larger than 256KB, Amazon AppFlow doesn't send the full event to EventBridge. Instead, Amazon AppFlow puts the event into an S3 bucket in your account, and then sends an event to EventBridge with a pointer to the Amazon S3 bucket. You can use the pointer to get the full event from the bucket.