This section describes the Salesforce Streaming API agent. The agent is a processing agent for real-time workflow configurations allowing you to subscribe to Salesforce topics and receive messages.

The Salesforce Streaming API agent can be used to connect to Salesforce as a client and listen to changes to specific objects. The agent uses the Salesforce Streaming API. This allows the workflow to receive requests in real-time from Salesforce for creating, updating, or deleting users, for example.

Example workflow using the Salesforce Streaming API agent

Prerequisites

The reader of this information should be familiar with:

The Salesforce Streaming API (https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_streaming.meta/api_streaming/intro_stream.htm)

This section includes the following subsections:

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